DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 225 



INFECTIOUS GARGET. 



A terrible scourge is infectious garget. It takes the ewe very 

 suddenly, and is often not correctly diagnosed until too late to save 

 the quarter from death. 



Symptoms. When seen early, are the same as above described, 

 but the tendency to death of the structures involved is so rapid 

 that it is usual to find the udder already purple to black. 



Treatment. Not the individual, but the flock must be our 

 first consideration. To get her away from the others before the 

 discharges have a chance to distil venom. If caught in the early 

 stage the rather desperate measure may be taken of injecting with 

 a hypodermic syringe, at several points, a solution of perchloride 

 of mercury of the strength of one in fifteen hundred of water. 

 We have known one in one thousand to be used. Ewes are so 

 very likely to die that ordinary caution is set aside in attempting 

 a cure. We are disposed to credit very large doses of quinine, such 

 as twenty to thirty grains with good effect. The bag should be 

 liberally dressed with the camphorated oil previously recommended. 

 If the quarter sloughs out and the ewe is saved, she should be 

 made up for the butcher. 



