236 DISEASES OP SHEEP. 



to run into the eye, but this is a ridiculous notion. It must do harm 

 rather than good. 



Next give the Purgative Drink (No. 2, p. 200), and repeat if ne- 

 cessary, in three or four days. No other medicine will be required. 



No stimulating application should be made to the eye. It is too 

 often the practice among shepherds to apply sugar or salt, or white 

 vitriol : but this worse than uselessly tortures the poor animal ; it 

 increases the inflammation, and causes blindness where it would not 

 otherwise have occurred. A drop or two of the vinous tincture of 

 opium may be introduced into the eye, two or three times daily ; or 

 a tea-spoonful of laudanum may be added to a half pint of water, and 

 the eyes frequently washed with it. 



It will be quite time enough to think of stimulants if the eye should 

 remain cloudy after the inflammation has subsided, and then the fol- 

 lowing is the strongest that can be permitted. 



RECIPE (No. 22). 

 Lotion for Cloudiness on the Eye. — Take corrogive sublimate, four grains; rub it 

 down with spirit of wine, half an ounce; and add water, a pint. 



Although, perhaps, it would be prudent to send the sheep decidedly 

 and confirmedly blind to the butcher, lest they should perchance be 

 drowned in a ditch, or some serious accident should occur to them, 

 yet it is pleasing to observe how well they shift for themselves, and 

 what little harm comes to them. For the first few days they are 

 awkw-ard and confused, but, after that, they keep to their own walk, 

 and take with the others, or even by themselves, the accustomed way 

 home; and, some one of the flock takes the blind sheep under his 

 protection, and is always at his side in danger, and tells him the way 

 that he is to go by many a varied and intelligible bleat. 



[Grub in the head of sheep, is a troublesome disease in some parts of the United 

 States. 



The editor of the Cultivator, Vol. X., says : — The Grub in the head of a sheep, is 

 the larva or maggot of a fly, which deposites its egg in the nose, generally in the 

 month of August. The egg soon hatches, and the young maggot soon makes its way 

 up into the cavities called the frontal sinuses, where it attains its growth, causing 

 constant irritation and disease, and not unfrequently death. Arrived at its growth, 

 it falls to the earth, enters it, and in a short time emerges a perfect insect or fly, 

 ready to commence the career of re-production and destruction. We formerly lost 

 many sheep from the grub, and could find no cure for them, or but very partial oncsi 

 after it became evident they were diseased. Our course was preventative. About 

 the time the fly made its appearance, which is easily known by their exhibiting great 

 alarm, running from one part of the field to another, with their noses close to the 

 ground, &c., we caught one sheep, and with a wooden spatula, or flat stick, rubbed 

 the nose with tar. We then placed tar at the bottom of our salting troughs, over 

 Vhich the salt was sprinkled, and this brought their noses frequently in contatt with 

 the tar. This course we found a great preventative. Sheep, during the period they 

 are exposed to the attacks of the fly, should have access to a ploughed field, or if such 

 is not convenient, a few furrows should occasionally be opened in their pastures for 

 their benefit. Inhaling the dust, or rubbing their noses in it, renders the mucus dis- 



