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sheep hold their noses close to the ground, or under the body of their 

 companions, and try to get away from their tormenters. When the 

 parasite gains its habitat, it causes sneezing and a discharge from 

 the nose. Treatment is of little avail, but injecting a mixture of 

 two parts of turpentine and four of olive oil up the nostrils may be 

 tried. Prevention : Smear the sheep's nose, once a week, during 

 the summer months, with a mixture of equal parts of green tar and 

 palm oil. 



490. Catarrh or Cold. — The skull contains sinuses, or cavities, 

 which give strength and lightness to the head, and have communication 

 with the atmosphere through the medium of the nostrils. These 

 cavities are subject to irritation and inflammation, and they are so 

 affected in cases of common cold, which is of so frequent occurence in 

 early spring. This may be called simple catarrh or cold in the 

 head. Symptoms : In such cases, there may or may not be much 

 constitutional disturbance, nor rise of temperature, but the animal 

 seems dull and languid, the coat is staring, and watery discharges 

 come from the eyes and nostrils. Immediately these conditions are 

 observed, and the horse is noticed not to take its food freely, it should 

 be knocked off work, put into a nice, dry, airy loose box, clothed well, 

 have its legs bandaged, and be nursed for a few days. Boiled barley, 

 a little treacle and bran, with a table-spoonful of nitrate of potash 

 should be given night and morning. Carrots and green food are 

 of great service, and hay tea should be given to drink. These 

 apparently simple cases are always, however, to be regarded as 

 dangerous, for, if neglected, or should the horse get another chill, they 

 may end rather suddenly in congestion of the lungs, followed by 

 death. Again, neglected cases may run on into nasal gleet. 



491. Nasal Gleet is a chronic mattery discharge from one or both 

 nostrils. Now, the discharges from the nostrils are from so many 

 different causes, such as chronic inflammation of the lining membrane, 

 abscesses in the sinuses, diseased teeth, abscesses in, and affections of, 

 the pharynx, larynx, and the lungs, and also from that formidable 

 disease called glanders, that it is of the very greatest importance that. 



