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days successively, after half-a-pint of blood has been taken 

 from the animal. Then let half-an-ounce of purified nitre 

 be given for two days thereafter, when generally a cure will 

 be effected. Sir George Mackenzie recommends the salts 

 and nitre to be given in a cold state, which he says will 

 prove more powerful, and more beneficial. The parts v/hich 

 are most inflamed should be washed with goulard-water, to 

 cool them. 



CRAMP OF THE LEGS, OR WOOD-EVIL. 



Cold is the cause of this complaint, which suddenly seizes 

 sheep, and renders them incapable of walking, by partially 

 paralysing the action of the nerves of the limbs. 



Remedies. — A teaspoonful of mustard given night and 

 morning for some days has been found to restore power to 

 the limbs, while they are rubbed twice or thrice a day with 

 strong camphorated spirit of wine, mixed with about a 

 fourth of that quantity of spirit of turpentine. This is 

 applied with a flannel rubber. Let the animal be kept very 

 warm, and the following prescription given twice a day : — 

 Ground cinnamon . . 1 ounce. 

 Caraway-seeds, ground . 1 ounce, 

 Lintseed-meal . • 1 i ounce ; 



to be made into six balls. 



LEG-EVIL. 



This is a complaint in which the legs are liable to con- 

 siderable swelling, which sometimes ends in mortification 

 and death. Sheep which are attacked by this complaint 

 should be immediately taken into the house, and their legs 

 well washed with soda and water ; and after they are quite 

 dry, let them be properly anointed with citric or nitric 

 ointment When the swelling suppurates, it should be 



