92 The Shepherds^ Guide. 



used, as long as the pain, fever and bloody eva- 

 cuations continue ; after which, the chalk mix- 

 ture, and decoction of logwood and laudanum, will 

 do all that can be done towards a cure under si 

 complaint of this nature. Sheep, ill of this dis- 

 ease, should not be allowed to drink too freely of 

 very cold water ; instead of which, a pint of thin 

 gruel, made of bu' kwheat, oat or Indian meal, 

 and sweetened with molasses, given two or three 

 times a day, will at once supply the place of ne- 

 cessary drink and proper food. 



Braxy, Sir George M'Kinsey, describes dy- 

 sentery and braxy as the same disease. But Dr. 

 Duncan describes another disease under the 

 name of braxy, which appears to be a violent 

 inflammation of the bowels, unaccompanied with 

 d3^senteric symptoms. In both, the remedies, es- 

 pecially in the first stage, are much the same : 

 bleeding, purging and a cooling diet : with this 

 difference ; that in the dysentery, bleeding is sel- 

 dom necessary moie than once in the very be- 

 ginning of the disease : in the inflammation of the 

 bowels, it is the only remedy to be depended on, 

 and must be repeated at short intervals, as long as 

 the violence of the symptoms continues. 



Of the Rot we know but little. Some of the 

 Spanish sheep imported last fall brought it with 

 them ; as was proved by the fluke insect found 

 in and on their livers. This disease is almost cer- 

 tainly fatal J but it is not infectious, and as from 



