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tallow should be added ; and when thoroughly mixed, put 

 in the whole of the oil, and after being well mixed let the 

 salve be poured into a flat vessel to cool; or it may be 

 allowed to remain in the vessel in which it was melted : in 

 either case keep stirring the mixture until cold. 



If the weather is warm, the preparation may be found too 

 thin ; to obviate this, add an additional quantity of tallow 

 and resin. This ointment is applied in the same manner as 

 the smearing preparation, commencing with a line along the 

 back, and one on each side, one down all the legs, and on the 

 centre of the belly, as well as the inside of the thighs, and 

 both sides of the neck. Unless the weather is cold, the 

 wool should be shorn previous to the use of any of the above 

 appliances, and the whole skin well washed with soda and 

 water, or strong soap and water, with a soft shoebrush, and 

 after the animal is perfectly dry, the ointment may be then 

 applied over the whole body. If after the application of 

 either of the above ointments, the disease seems to spread, 

 or if it is cured in one portion of the skin, and breaks out 

 in another, it may then be inferred that the complaint has 

 assumed a constitutional character, in which case it will be 

 necessary to give internal remedies. The following specific 

 will have the effect of curing the disease : — to be adminis- 

 tered once a day for a week : — 



Sulphur .... 1 ounce. 



Antimony . . .1 ounce, 



Purified nitre . . .1 ounce ; 



to be made into three balls with lintseed-meal and treacle. 



After the ordinary process of shearing, if the sheep were 

 anointed with a very weak preparation of the above oint- 

 ments, it will have the effect of keeping ofl' the scab and 

 other cutaneous diseases. 



It will require great caution in the application of these 



