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The chances for the recovery depend on the extent and 

 the acuteness of the inflammation. Careless handling, 

 exercising, etc., lessen the chances for a favorable ter- 

 mination in the disease, but good care helps more to bring 

 about recovery than the medical treatment. The recov- 

 ery is more unfavorable in fat than in lean sheep, as the 

 inflammation is usually more severe in the former. The 

 course is from seven to twenty-one days and it may be- 

 come chronic if the irritation is kept up. In such cases, 

 unthriftiness is a prominent sign. 



Teeatment : The preventive treatment in Pneumonia 

 must not be overlooked. Briefly, it consists in avoiding 

 such conditions as may predispose the animal to the dis- 

 ease or act in any way as an exciting cause. Careful 

 nursing is a very important part of the treatment. The 

 sheep should be given a comfortable, well ventilated shed 

 and kept as quiet as possible. If the bowels become con- 

 stipated, give two or three ounces of Castor Oil and feed 

 sloppy food. As one attack predisposes the sheep to a 

 second, it should be protected from severe cold, or the 

 other extreme, heat, for a month after making a com- 

 plete recovery. 



The following prescription will be found very bene- 

 ficial : Iodide of Ammonia, one-half ounce ; Chlorate of 

 Potassi, one ounce ; Pulv. Nux Vomica, one ounce. Make 

 into twenty-four powders and give one powder every four 

 hours well back on the tongue. Continue this treatment 

 until the animal has recovered. 



LUNG WORMS, LAMB DISEASE 



(Verminous Bronchitis) 

 Cause: Due to a white thread-like worm (Strongylus 

 Filaria) varying in length from one to three inches. 

 These worms aflFect and live in the trachea (windpipe) 

 and bronchial tubes. Infected animals, in coughing, ex- 

 pel fertilized eggs which develop on the grass and stag- 



