

CHAPTER XXIV. 



DISEASES OP THE DIGESTIVE OEGANS, 



BLAIN OBSTRUCTIONS OF THE GULLET THE STOMACHS 

 AND THEIE DISEASES EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL APPEAR- 

 ANCE OF THE STOMACHS THE MODE OF ADMINISTERING 



MEDICINES INTO THE STOMACHS OF SHEEP HOOVE POISONS 



INFLAMMATION OF THE RUMEN, OR PAUNCH OBSTRUC- 

 TION OF THE MANIPLUS ACUTE DROPSY, OR RED -WATER 



ENTERITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE COATS OF THE 



INTESTINES DIARRHEA DYSENTERY CONSTIPATION 



COLIC, OR STRETCHES BRAXY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE 



BOWELS WORMS PINING. 



BLAIN. This malady, as has been remarked, is unknown 

 in the United States. The following is Mr. Youatt's descrip- 

 tion of its symptoms and treatment : 



" Sheep are liable, although not so much as cattle, to that 

 inflammation of the tongue, or rather of the cellular tissue on 

 the side of and under the tongue, to which the above singular 

 names are given. A few sheep in the flock are occasionally 

 attacked by it, or it appears under the form of an epidemic. 

 A discharge of saliva runs from the mouth ; at first colorless 

 and devoid of smell, but soon becoming bloody, purulent and 

 stinking. The head and neck begin to swell, and the animal 

 breathes with difficulty, and is sometimes suffocated. A 

 succession of vesicles have risen along the side of the tongue 

 they have rapidly grown they have broken they have 

 become gangrenous they have formed deep ulcers, or 

 deeper abscesses that occasionally break outwardly. When 

 this is the case it is probably the "Greathead" of Mr. 

 Hogg. The cause is some unknown atmospheric influence ; 

 but the sheep have been predisposed to be affected by it, 

 either by previous unhealthy weather, by feeding on unwhole- 

 some herbage, or by unnecessary exposure to cold and wet. 



