GARGET. 



After the bowels have been operated upon, these mixtures are 

 omitted, and the following given : 



Nitrate of Potash Va ounce. 



Carbonate of Soda 1 . 



Camphor 1 dram. 



Gum Water ". 8 ounces. 



An eighth of a pint to be given twice a day. The ewe should be 

 fed chiefly upon thin oat-meal gruel and milk, or infusion of lin- 

 seed. After the lamb has been expelled, the uterus should be in- 

 jected with warm milk and water, or if there is a very offensive 

 discharge, one dram of chloride of lime dissolved hi a pint of 

 warm water, should be injected instead of the milk and water. 



Abortion. This disease is not frequent amongst sheep, and 

 when it occurs can almost always be traced to the excessive use of 

 roots in cold weather, when the ewe is heavy with lamb. It has 

 also been known to occur in consequence of, or after, the heavy 

 dressing of turnip or mangel land with superphosphate, the crop 

 having been fed to the ewes, but this is probably in consequence 

 of the greater succulence of the roots so grown, rather than the 

 direct action of the phosphate. The distension of the stomach 

 with cold, watery food, so greatly reduces the temperature of the 

 abdominal viscera as to destroy the life of the foetus, which is pre- 

 maturely expelled, with all the disagreeable consequences to the 

 ewe described in the preceding paragraph. Chasing by dogs is a 

 very frequent cause. 



The treatment is preventive and alleviative. Caution in feeding 

 roots to in-lamb ewes in any but small quantities, or in avoiding 

 fright, excessive exertion, and worrying, will prevent its occur- 

 rence. When it has happened, the following may be given with 

 some nourishing liquid food, viz : 



Epsom Salts i/ a ounce. 



Laudanum 1 dram. 



Powdered Camphor ." i/ a " 



The latter two only may be repeated the second day. 



Garget. This disease consists of inflammation of the udder or 

 milk glands. It rarely occurs, except in those ewes which have 

 lost their young and are not supplied with foster lambs, or when 

 the teats are not opened readily by the new-born lamb ; or at 

 weaning time. If the ewe is in good condition, and has a large 

 flow of milk, which is not drawn off, the udder becomes gorged, 

 inflamed, and finally festers and suppurates. In this way some 

 ewes may lose part or the whole of the udder, and their useful- 

 ness as breeders be destroyed. It is also occasioned by allowing 

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