372 ROT IN SHEEP. 



Patience throughout the disease must be exerted, and the 

 animal by no means neglected until it dies. 



DYSENTERY IN SHEEP. 



Sheep are also troubled with a dysenteric affection called 

 hraxy, in which there is a frequent stooling of soft dung, 

 mixed with blood and mucus. When it terminates fatally, 

 these motions become dark and foetid. If the inner surface 

 of the eye be very red, and the animal easily excited, take 

 two ounces of blood away ; give two or three ounces of 

 castor oil, with thirty drops of laudanum, and two drachms 

 of tincture of ginger : or one ounce of salts, with the same 

 quantity of opiate as before : after which administer night 

 and morning, the following : — 



« Powdered ipecacuanha fifteen grains. 



Prepared chalk one drachm. 



Powdered opium one scruple. 



Boiled starch four ounces. 



House the sheep, give gruel or starch in case the cud is 

 lost, and tend the animal with the greatest care ; also pay 

 every attention to cleanliness, even to chpping the wool 

 away from the poor creature's anus, that the purging may 

 not soil it. 



ROT IN SHEEP. 



Rot in sheep is a disease the public in general, and the 

 agriculturist in particular, are deeply interested in. Poor 

 clayey and moist lands are most liable to beget the rot ; for 

 on such lands the water which falls not being able to soak 

 through, nor yet evaporate, remains upon the earth stagnant, 

 and begets miasm as it exhales ; it likewise generates, as 

 some suppose, the germs of insects, viz. flukes, &c. &c. 

 which are received with the food. As sheep affected with 

 rot present flukes, it is not an unnatural conclusion that 

 they have much to do with the diseased symptoms, and 

 the fatal issue which succeeds to them. It appears this 

 disease is known throughout every part of the world where 

 this valuable animal is cultivated. In Egypt it is very 

 common, and is not there confined to sheep, but it also 

 attacks horses, cattle, and most of the lesser animals ; it 

 particularly is common upon the whole of the borderings of 



