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thriving, after which it makes rapid advances to 

 strength, vigour, and proportion. 



9th. Dysentery is commonly fatal, diarrhoea 

 rarely, unless the animal has been previously much 

 debilitated. 



Cure. — As dysentery is frequently attended by 

 inflammation, bleeding will be proper, and also a 

 purge. Afterwards the following doses should be 

 daily administered, until symptoms of recovery ap- 

 pear, which will be very soon. The day after the 

 bleeding and purging, half an ounce of chalk, mixed 

 up in warm milk. Two hours afterwards, a gill 

 of warm water into which has been put half a table 

 spoonfid of tincture of terra japonica and 30 drops 

 of laudanum. The diet should consist of hay, sprin- 

 kled with salt. 



10. Jaundice. 



This is a rare disease. It is known by the skin 

 and eyes becoming of a greenish yellow colour. It 

 is occasioned by the rupture of some of the vessels 

 secreting the bile, or conveying it to the stomach 

 and intestines. The bile being diffused through 

 the body, causes the colour peculiar to this disease. 

 Bleeding is useful ; and a dose of jalap, with perhaps 

 a few gTains of calomel, will be of service. Exercise 

 is very efficacious. 



11. Maggots. 



When, on the examination of a sheep or lamb 

 which appears harrassed and restless, the tumours 

 under which the maggots are concealed are observed, 

 they should be freely opened, that the vermin may 

 be picked out. The sore may be anointed and co- 

 vered with a rag spread with smearing stuff. This 

 dressing being daily changed, a recovery is made in 

 a few days. Means of preventing the attacks of 



