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brown stinking fluid, in wliich, are shreds of tissue. For years, I have 

 been under the impression that this disease is due to septic material 

 being carried into the system through the navel opening, which, in 

 most cases, is found to be open, and from which there is a slight 

 discharge of thin watery fluid ; consequently, as a preventive, I strongly 

 recommend that at all times the navel siring be tied with a piece of 

 cord dipped in carbolized oil, or a waxed thread, as used by shoemakers; 

 above all, the box in which the mare foaled, or the cow calved and 

 cleansed, should be thoroughly washed out with water containing 

 carbolic acid. Clean dry bedding is an absolute necessity. Treat- 

 ment is extremely unsatisfactory ; rubbing the affected joint with 

 essential oil of campJiov, and giving dessert-spoonful doses of liquid 

 sanitas, or one to two drachm doses of hyposulphite of soda, with five 

 to ten drops pure carbolic acid, given in a little milk or water, every 

 six or eight hours, answers as well as anything I have tried. 



THE SHEEP. 



337. Many of the ailments affecting the digestive organs of the 

 cow are seen in the sheep, and the Treatment is somewhat analogous, 

 only the medicine used must be about one-fourth less than what is 

 given to the cow. 



338. There is, however, one very complicated affection that deserves 

 special attention, and that is Verminous or Parasitic Bronchitis, or Hoose, 

 complicated with Diarrhcea, or Scour. The Diarrhoea has already 

 been described (par. 310), and the Hoose will be further noticed 

 in Lecture IX. — Respiratory Organs. This complicated disorder is 

 mostly seen in lambs that have been moved from one place to 

 another during the months of August and September, and generally 

 makes itself manifest in and from October till December. The disease 

 is due to the presence of the Strongylus Filaria, a small white thread-like 

 worm found in the wind -pipe and bronchial tubes, causing Verminous 

 or Parasitic Bronchitis, accompanied by hoose or cough. These worms, 

 when numerous, are quite sufficient in themselves to cause death, 

 setting up, as they do, inflammation and consolidation of the lungs ; 



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