THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 3(J7 



fusion of tobacco put into them ; and the following 

 medicine may be given for three or four mornings 

 successively : — 



Flour of Sulphur - - - 2 ounces. 



Honey, Treacle, or Syrup - 3 ounces. 



Mix them, and divide them into six doses, of which 

 one may be given every morning in half a pint of warm 

 water. If this is found successful, half an ounce 

 of nitre mixed with the foregoing recipe, will be 

 attended with good effect ; after which a dose of salts 

 may be given, and the body washed with lime 

 water. 



Another kind of Red Water has been described, said 

 to be caused by feeding on turnips and succulent 

 grasses. It attacks sheep that are in good condition, 

 and often destroys them in twenty-four hours. This, 

 however, is a different disease, and consists in an in- 

 flammatory state of the system, affecting particularly 

 the internal parts. Here bleeding is essentially neces- 

 sary ; after which the bowels should be emptied, by 

 giving from one ounce to one ounce and a half of 

 Epsom salts. When the animal recovers, he should 

 not be too hastily turned into the pasture with the 

 other sheep. 



ERYSIPELAS, OR WILD-FIRE. 



Symptoms. — This, like the last mentioned disease, 

 also affects the skin, and is apt, if not attended to, to 

 spread very quickly among the flock. It is attended 

 with more inflammation than the last, and but seldom 

 with blisters over the body. It commonly appears in 



