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until the papiuar stage gives place to the vesicular. When the 

 vesicular stage is reached the animal is relieved. 



Usually half the sheep attacked with this disease succum'b. 

 In some cases nearly the whole flock is swept away. 



Treatment. — ^Medicinal remedies are of no service. The dis- 

 ease must be allowed to run its course. Sweet spirits of nitre, 

 one-half ounce; potassium nitrate, one drachm, may be used 

 and the nostrils sponged to prevent suffocation. The diseased 

 sheep should be separated from the healthy. If possible, this 

 should be done while the fever is rising and before the com- 

 mencement of the eruptions. If this be done, the disease may be 

 checked. The healthy animals should not be allowed to go on 

 pastures or roads frequented by diseased animals until heavy 

 rains have destroyed the contagium. 



RINDERPEST. 



This disease occurs in sheep, although not so frequently as in 

 cattle. The symptoms are the same in sheep as rinderpest, or 

 cattle plague, in the ox. The incubative stage is more variable 

 than in cattle. Sheep running with cattle that have rinderpest 

 generally contract the disease. 



ANTHRAX. 



This disease occurs in sheep, but not so frequently as in cattle 

 and horses. When affecting sheep, it is sometimes called splenic 

 apoplexy. 



Symptoms. — The first symptom exhibited by a sheep thus af- 

 fected is a short step. The animals are seen to lie down and rise 

 frequently, or stand apart with the head depressed and the back 

 arched. Should the disease not terminate rapidly the wool will 

 drop out. The post-morten appearances are identical with those 

 seen in cattle. 



FOOT ROT. 



This is the name given to a contagions disease in sheep, which 

 causes a destruction of the horn of the foot. It is asserted by 



