no The Shepherds*' Guide. 



From day to day the number of the eruptions ap*- 

 peared to increase, and to collect in large clusters, 

 particularly about the neck, throat and jaws ; by 

 which, although the lambs retained an appe- 

 tite for the teat, they were at length prevent- 

 ed from sucking. In a few of the old sheep, al- 

 though the eruption was very numerous, the ma- 

 turation of the pock was perfect, and in general, 

 such recovered. But more frequendy it was 

 very imperfect in the old sheep -, and in the young 

 Iambs, I saw none that maturated at all, where 

 the eruption was general over the body ; and all 

 such died. But where the eruption was chiefly 

 confined to the mouth and pudenda, a kindly 

 maturation took place and they recovered. Upon 

 the whole, this, disease proved fatal to more than 

 one third, nearly half of the old sheep j and to 

 three fourths of the lambs which were attacked. 



The relics of this disease, like those of the 

 small pox, are various and terrible. I have al- 

 ready mentioned the putrid and corroding ulcers 

 about the mouth. Some had imposthumations, 

 especially about the head, which on being open- 

 ed, discharged a greenish and offensive matter ; 

 but the eyes most frequently suffered ; the ball of 

 the eye itself imposthumating and bursting, and 

 this symptom attended and followed some of the 

 milder cases : in one, a fine full-blooded ram, 

 no other. symptom was discovered. 



Treatment. It will readily be conceived that 

 in a disease of this nature, no more than in the 



