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may be given. When cured, the animal must be 

 gradually accustomed to its pasture, otherwise the 

 tender rich grass may occasion a relapse. 



9. Dysentery. 



Symptoms. — This disease is sometimes called the 

 hraxy, A sheep affected with it has generally the 

 wool clapped, the eye languid, the mouth dry, the 

 skin rough, and pulse quick. It lies down fre- 

 quently, and rises again at short intervals. It voids 

 fasces verjf often, almost every time it gets up, and 

 which are mixed with blood and slime. At a more 

 advanced stage, they are black and stinking. It 

 eats little, and does not chew the cud. 



Dysentery is sometimes mistaken for diarrhoea; 

 but they may be distinguished by the following 

 characters ; 



1st. Diarrhoea attacks chiefly hogs and weak 

 gimmers and dinmonts; whereas dysentery is fre- 

 quent among older sheep. 



2d. Diarrhoea almost always occurs in the spring 

 and ceases about June, when dysentery only com- 

 mences. 



3d. In diarrhoea there is no fever, or tenesmus, 

 or pain before the stools, as in dysentery. 



•ith. In diarrhoea the fseces are loose, but in 

 other respects natural, without any blood or slime ; 

 whereas in dysentery the feeces consist of hard 

 lumps passed occasionally ; the rest being blood and 

 slime. 



5th. There is not that degree of foetor in the 

 faaces, in diarrhoea, which takes place in dysentery. 



6th. In dysentery the appetite is totally gone ; 

 in diarrhoea it is rather sharper than usual. 



7th. Diarrhoea is not contagious ; dysentery 

 highly so. 



8th. In dysentery the animal wastes rapidly ; 

 but by diarrhoea, only a temporary stop is put to its 



