370 Diseases of Sheejp. 



50° and 60° are to be obtained, when possible. One of the 

 best of foods for lambs is — 



No. 414. White of egg, 1 part. 



AVater, 6 parts. 



Beat together, and give milk-warm, as much as the patient wants. 



A little laudanum can be added to this, if desired. The 

 albumen of the egg is soothing and restraining to the deli- 

 cate intestinal membrane, while it supports the strength. 

 For a mild medicine, the following : — 



No. 415. Prepared chalk. 2 oz. 



Ginger, in powder, i oz. 



Opium, in powder, 1 drachm. 



Mix in a pint of peppermint or calamus tea, and give a tablespoonful 

 night and morning. 



When more positive astringent action is demanded, one 

 ounce of powdered catechu should be added to the above. 



In serious cases, where, as above mentioned, the stools 

 become slimy and tinged with blood, and the weakness is 

 great, we must have recourse to arsenic. Two to three drops 

 of Fowler's solution of arsenic should be given three or four 

 times a day, in a teaspoonful of water, to a young lamb. 

 Sometimes such cases can be benefited by small doses of 

 quinine, two or three grains given five or six tunes a day. 



One variety of diarrhea in lambs is known as the " white 

 scour," because the excrement is of ^ whitish color. It is 

 usually watery and very acrid, and irritating to the external 

 parts. With it there is much colic, loss of appetite, and 

 rapidly increasing weakness. 



In all cases this arises from the non-digestion of the ewe's 

 milk. Either the lamb has a weak stomach, or overloads it, 

 or the milk is not of a healthy character. Highly fed ewes 

 are specially liable to have this disease in then- lambs, their 

 milk probably being too rich. 



The treatment is to prevent the lamb taking so much, or 



