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soon afterwards a discharge of saliva takes j)lace from the 

 mouth, and accompanied bj swelling of the belly. 



Causes — Cold and wet are the chief sources of this com- 

 plaint, as well as many others in sheep. The skin being 

 fretted by the wet, watery blisters rise on it. Sometimes, 

 however, the animal is affected with internal cold, which 

 produces a slight febrile attack, and causes tliese watery 

 vesicles to appear on the skin, and are similar to the eruptions 

 which are produced about the mouth and face of many indi- 

 viduals when they have caught a severe cold. This affec- 

 tion has but little influence on the blood, although a small 

 portion of it finds its way into the vesicles under the skin, 

 and produces that red tinge to the thin glary matter of 

 these little blisters, from which the name of the complaint 

 is derived. 



Remedies. — The first thing to be done when the disease 

 is violent, is to remove the animal to a place by itself, take 

 a small quantity of ])lood, and then the vesicles should be 

 laid open by means of a small knife, scalpel, or lancet ; 

 after which let each of them be well waslied out witli an 

 infusion of tobacco. Afterwards administer the following 

 for three or four successive mornings : — 



Sulphur, in pow^ler . 2 ounces, 



Treacle, or syrup . . 3 ounces. 

 Nitre • • • i o^^nce ; 



to be made into six doses, and given them in the form of a 

 ball, or in half-a-pint of water, a little warmed. On the 

 seventh morning give the animal an ounce of Epsom salts ; 

 and on the following or next day, wash the wdiole parts 

 affected with lime-water, and the sheep may then be con- 

 sidered as cured. 



