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DISEASES OP SHEEP. 



symptoms assume a severer type, and death soon 

 occurs, in general from suffocation. If the inflamma- 

 tion of the bronchial tubes becomes chronic, that is to 

 say, if it goes on in a mild form for a length of time, 

 pulmonary consumption (rot) will in all probability 

 succeed, and destroy the sheep in a more lingering 

 manner. 



(158.) Treatment of Cory za. Should this disease 

 |)revail in a lenient form among your sheep, removal 

 to a sheltered field, and a dose of purgative medicine, 

 are all that is required. If, however, the feverish 

 symptoms are severe, besides giving a purgative, bleed 

 at the outset of the disease, and administer ten grains 

 of the following fever powder, dissolved in a tea-cupful 

 of warm water : — 



Take of powdered Digitalis (Foxglove) half a drachm. 

 Tartarized Antimony fifteen grains 

 Nitre two drachms. 



Rub them well together, and divide the mixture into 

 fifteen parts or powders. Half an hour after the 

 powder is swallowed, give the sheep a basin of warm 

 gruel, and repeat the powder at the end of six hours, if 

 the symptoms are not considerably abated. When 

 the sheep is recovering, keep it on juicy food, and do 

 not expose it to inclement weather, as it will be very 

 liable to another and more severe attack. Those sheep 

 which are subject to cough on slight changes of tem- 

 perature, should always be picked out, fattened for the 

 market, and disposed of at the earliest opportunity, as 

 they will, in all probability, sooner or later, fall victim* 

 to the following disease. 



(159.) Rot. Every animal, from the serpent up to 



