836 DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



Prevention. Two plans are resorted to for the purpose 

 of preventing the spread of the affection, which promise a 

 certainty of success. The first and best plan is, isolation 

 and destruction. This plan proved a great protection to 

 the sheep farmers of Wiltshire, in 18G2. In well known 

 epizootic diseases, where individual cases occur and are 

 pointed out and Avell recognized, as soon as the fever sets 

 in, and before the eruptions appear, they should be slaugh- 

 tered at once and buried. The loss of one or two sheep is 

 nothing to the consequences of the spread of a disease of 

 this kind. By doing so the disease has been known to 

 be confined to a few cases in a large flock. 



Treatment. In treating this disease, resort has been had 

 to a plant called sarracenia purjoura, Indian cup, or pitcher 

 plant, which is used for treating this disease in man by 

 the Micmac tribe of Indians in British North America. 

 (See Horse and Cattle Medicines in this book.) Take 

 from one to two ounces of the root, (dried if to be had) 

 and slice it in thin pieces ; place in an earthen pot ; add 

 a quart of cold water, and allow the liquid to simmer 

 gently over a slow, steady fire from two to three hours, so 

 as to lose one-fourth of the quantity. Give of this tea or 

 decoction three wine-glassfuls at once, and the same quan- 

 tity from four to six hours after, when a cure will generally 

 be effected. "Weaker and smaller doses are certain preven- 

 tives of small-pox, whether in men or animals. The public 

 are indebted to Dr. Norris, Physician to the Halifax (Nova 

 Scotia) Dispensary, for the manner of preparing this highly 

 important article. Sulphurous acid gas will be found 

 useful in small-pox. For manner of using, see Horse and 

 Cattle Medicines in this book. 



