The Shepherds' Guide. 95 



advances, so as to render them safe, more effect- 

 ual remedies must be resorted to. 



In such cases, therefore, as soon as the weather 

 will permit, let the wool be shorn off, and* the 

 whole body of the animal be thoroughly cleansed, 

 (especially all the parts infected) by scrubbing 

 with a brush and warm soap suds, in every gal- 

 Ion of which, about four ounces of the fresh roots 

 of white hellebore or sharp-pointed dock, or two 

 ounces of dried tobacco stalks have been previ- 

 ously boiled. The wool being suffered to dry, 

 every infected part is to be well anointed with the 

 following ointment. 



Take corrosive sublimate, four ounces ; 

 hog's lard, ten pounds ; 

 mutton suet and 

 rosin, of each, one pound. 



Dissolve the corrosive sublimate in strong spi- 

 rits, by rubbing them together in a glass mortar, 

 pouring off the solution, then adding more spirits, 

 until the whole is dissolved ; then having melted 

 the lard, suet, and rosin together, suffer them to 

 cool, until they begin to thicken at the sides of the 

 vessel, and add the solution of the sublimate gra- 

 dually to them, stirring the whole continuallv un- 

 til cold, so as to blend them very uniformly to- 

 gether. Where rosin cannot be procured, bees- 

 wax may supply its place ; the use of either, as 

 well as of the suet, is to give consistence and tena- 

 city to the ointment in hot weather. 



