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CHAPTER Y. 



DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



General Remarhs on Diseases of Sheep, and their Treatment, 



Braxy — Striking of the Blood — Charbon in Sheep, 



Sheep Smallpox — Variola Ovina. 



Louping III — Thorter 111 — The Gnaio Disease, 



Malignant Epizootic Catarrh — The Sheep Distemper, 



Colic — Blown — Blast — Wind Dropsy, 



Red Water — Hcematuria, 



Hoof Rot— Foot Rot, 



Foul in the Foot, 



Stone in the Bladder, 



Lambing in the Fice; Heaping Pains; Milk Fever ; Garget, 



Rheumatism of Lambs, 



Constipation in Lambs, 



Diarrhea in Lambs, 



Turnsick — Sturdy — Gid — Hydatid of the Brain, 



Sheep Bots — Grubs in the Head — Head Maggots, 



Lang Worms — The Hoose in Lambs — White Skin — Paper 



Skin — Pelt Rot — The Pale Disease, 

 The Rot — The Liver Fluke, 

 Intestinal Worms, 

 The Scab — The Mange or Itch in Sheep, 



GENEEAL REMARKS ON DISEASES OF SHEEP, AND THEIR TREAT- 

 MENT. 



The two most prominent classes of the diseases of sheep 

 are : 1. Those arising from exhaustion, debility, and a 

 low state of the system ; and 2d, Those arising from the 

 presence of parasitic animals. 



It has long been noticed that even in England and Scot- 

 land, inflammatory affections are rare in these animals, their 



