CHAPTER IV. 



Wounds— Imposthumations-Ulcers and fractures 

 — Hunger — ^Lax — Finding in lambs — Diar- 

 rhoea — Dysenter}^ — Braxy — Rot — Scab — Ery- 

 sipelas — Vermin — Hove — Foot rot — Sturdy 

 — Staggers — Claveau or sheep pox. 



Diseases of Sheep, 



\J F the most simple complaints, such as wounds, 

 bruises, and fractures, a healthy sheep so soon 

 recovers, that farmers are too apt to neglect them 

 altogether : but by so doing, a simple wound may 

 degenerate into an ulcer, a bruise may imposthu- 

 mate ; and although a broken bone will knit, the 

 animal suffers great pain, and will probably have 

 a crooked limb ever after. 



With regard to fresh wounds, so much care on- 

 Iv is necessary after cutting the wool from the 

 edges, as to clear them from dirt, and any other 

 foreign substance ; to bring the edges together 

 and keep them so by a bandage where that can 

 be applied, or by a strong sticking plaster, which 

 may be made of shoemaker's wax ; or when the 

 wound is very large, by a stitch or two taken deep 

 into the flesh, which can be made only with a sur- 

 geon's crooked needle. It should then be covered 

 by a plaster made of equal parts ot black pitch and 



