842 SCAB OB POCK, 



CHAPTER V. 

 GENERAL DISEASES. 



Scab or Pock. 



This disease, which attacks the same animal but 

 once in life, and by preference the young ones of the 

 flock, is one which sometimes occasions fearful 

 ravages among sheep. It has its regular stages like 

 the small-pox, and may be mild or malignant. 



SYMPTOMS. In the mild form, the animal is for two 

 or three days sad and dejected; then on different 

 parts, more particularly on the inner surface of the 

 fore-feet and around the mouth, small red spots 

 appear, whose center is occupied by a pimple, term- 

 inating in a white point. This stage of eruption is 

 attended with feverish shiverings, heat, especially of 

 the ears and nose : redness of the eyes ancl inner 

 mouth; the animal is melancholy; head down; feet 

 close together; lameness especially of hind parts; 

 no appetite or cud. The greater the number of 

 pustules the worse the disease. The body is hot; 

 breathing short ; a clear mucus flows from the mouth; 

 the parts occupied with pimples, especially the head, 

 swell so that the animal can not open its eyes or 

 mouth; the fever continues; the pustules enlarge, 

 and are filled with fluid, first thin, and then becoming 

 thick, yellow, arid purulent. On the thirteenth day 



