BTUitDY— uiAUinia:.v.] AND Til H Hi VAKIULS BliEEDS. 



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THE BLIND. 



This is a disease of tlio eye, and soon 

 takes tho cliaracter of an epidemic. At firsl 

 it appears in n little iiillaniiiiation, and tlien 

 becomes opaque, Tho animal sutlers dread- 

 fullv, and ia reduced both in frame and con- 

 dition. Smearing tho eye with tar relieves 

 the pain, and abates tho inllammation ; but it 

 sometimes removes the wool, and causes the 

 animal to look ugly if he is for sale at any 

 early period. 



THE STURDY. 

 This is an incurable disease, arising either 

 from water in the head, hydatids in tho brain, 

 or other disease of the latter organ. As the 

 fattest sheep are usually attacked, the animal 

 should at once be sent to be slaughtered, for 

 the mutton is not impaired in the slightest 

 degree. Various modes of treatment have 

 been tried to cure the sturdy, but they have all 

 been, more or less, failures. 



DIARRHOEA. 



This disease is most frequent in hogs or 

 young sheep, and is often caused by improper 

 as well as by rapid changes of food. It has 



Ist. Diarrhoja chiefly attacks hogs and two- 

 year-old sheep; whereas dybcutery ia frequent 

 among such as are older. 



2ud. Diarrhcea almost always occurs in the 

 spring, and ceases about June, when dysentery 

 only commences. 



3rd. In diarrhcea there is no fever or pain 

 before tho stools, as in dysentery. 



4th. In diarrliuua the Icjeces are loose ; but, 

 in other respects, natural, without any blood 

 or slime; whereas, in dysentery, the ia'ces 

 consist of hard lumps, passed occasionally, 

 the rest being blood or slime. 



5th. There is not the degree of bad smell in 

 the excrement, in diarrlia'a, which takes place 

 in dysentery. 



6th. In dysentery the appetite is totally 

 gone ; in diarrhcea it is rather sharper than 

 usual. 



7th. Diarrhoea is not contagious ; dysentery 

 is highly so. 



8th. In dysentery the animal wastes rapidly ; 

 but, by diarrha>a, only a temporary stop is put 

 to its thriving, after which it makes rapid ad- 

 vances to strength and vigour. 



9th. Dysentery is commonly fatal ; diarrhoea 

 rarely, unless the animal has been previously 

 much debilitated. In cases of dysentery, the 



been said that two teaspoonfuls of sulphur : following treatment is as good as can be ad- 

 will seldom fail of producing the effect, when vised, provided proper care is bestowed upon 

 administered in gruel in time ; but if the first [ the animal, and the food attended to : — 



Linseed oil . . . . 2 ozs. 

 Powdered opium ... 2 grains. 

 This is to be given to each sheep, in an infusion 

 of linseed, the gruel being repeated several 

 times; and, on the following day, the opium 

 to be again administered with half a drachm of 

 powdered ginger, and the same quantity oi' 

 gentian. This may be given several times, 

 and sometimes combined with linseed oil. 



These are the principal diseases of the 

 sheep. Those which refer to inflammations of 

 the chest, bowels, &c., require the treatment 

 of a skilful veterinary practitioner, whose ser- 

 vices should be sought as early as possible ; 



stage is over, it will require more vigorous 

 means. A dose of two ounces of linseed oil, 

 with two grains of opium, to allay the irrita- 

 tion of the bowels, will often answer the pur- 

 pose ; but if the disease should still prevail — 



Prepared chalk . . . 1 oz. 



Opium ^drachm. 



Ginger ..... 3 „ 



Port wine .... 2 ozs. 



may be given in a gill of gruel with great ad- 

 vantage. 



DYSENTERY. 

 This disease resembles the preceding to 



Bome extent, yet is distinguished by other , for the longer the delay, the greater is the 

 symptoms, which should be well observed. ^ danger of fatal consequences being the result. 

 Sir G. Mackenzie thus draws the marks of , This ought always to be borne iu mind in such 

 distinction between them :— { cusea. 



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