57G MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



This disease, wliich consists of pretty copious purgiiic', 

 will be alleviated by the following prescription : — 

 Laudanum . . .20 drops, 



Ground ginger . . ^ drachm ; 



made into a small ball wnth lintseed-meal and treacle, and 

 forced down the animars tiiroat. 



CHAPTER I Y. 



DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL PARTS, ETC. 



SCAB, OR ITCH. 



Symptoms. — This troublesome, infectious, and destructive 

 malady is analogous to the itch in the human being, and 

 the mange in horses and dogs. As soon as a sheep has 

 caught the complaint, it rubs itself against every object 

 which it meets. It wdll even tear off its w^ool with its teeth. 

 The skin emits a peculiarly sickly smell, and presents a red, 

 fretted appearance, which in a short time hardens into 

 scabs all over the body. This disease is highly contagious, 

 so that when one is discovered to be affected, the wdiole flock 

 should be carefully examined, and those in which the slight- 

 est indications are manifested should be separated from the 

 rest, otherwise the entire flock will catch the complaint. 

 Bat even here the assiduity of the shepherd must not ter- 

 minate, as it will be necessary to go carefully over the flock 

 for three or four days successively, as some of them may 

 have caught the malady, although it has not become appa- 

 rent at first. 



