CHAPTER XVI. 



DISEASES OF THE SHEEP. 



INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS — DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND 

 SPINAL MARROW— STURDY OR DIZZY— HYDROCEPHALUS— TREM- 

 BLING— APOPLEXY. THE AIR PASSAGES — GESTRIS OVIS OR GAD- 

 FLY, CAUSING WORMS IN THE HEAD— CORYZA OR COLDS. DIS- 

 EASES OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES — HOOVE — BRAXY— 

 STRETCHES— DIARRHCEA OR SCOURS-ACUTE DROPSY OR RED WA- 

 TER—DYSENTERY-POISON. DISEASES OF THE LUNGS— ANATOMY 

 OF THE LIVER— ROT— INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS — DROPSY. 

 DISEASES OF PARTURITION— ABORTION— INVERSION OF THE UTE- 

 RUS—GARGET. THE INTEGUMENT OR SKIN -DISEASES OF THE 

 SKIN— SCAB OR ITCH— ERYSIPELAS— JOHNSWORT SCAB— PELT-ROT 

 —SORE MOUTH— MAGGOTS. FOOT-ROT— FOULS. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



There is no department in the management of sheep so 

 little understood as the nature and treatment of their dis- 

 eases. Happily, however, for the American shepherd, 

 many of the diseases which prove so destructive in Great 

 Britain, are here of rare occurrence. From this circum- 

 stance, the compiler of the following treatise has been com- 

 pelled to rely on Messrs. Youatt and Blacklock, both distin- 

 guished veterinary surgeons, for much information concern- 

 ing those diseases, which, with us, are but partially known. 

 It is proper therefore to affirm, that this treatise has been 

 compiled from the most approved authorities — from personal 

 knowledge of the writer of some diseases which are most 

 common to the country, as well from careful comparison of 

 the opinions and experience of some of the most distin- 

 guished breeders of sheep in this and the Eastern States ; 

 and hence, he has every reason for believing that the pre- 

 monitory symptoms, preventives, and treatment of every dis- 

 ease, which will be noticed, are entitled to the implicit con- 

 fidence of the American shepherd. 

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