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spoonful, in warm gruel, with ten drops of laudanum. 

 Fourteen tea-spoonsful rhubarb, seven of ginger, and seven 

 of laudanum, or tincture of opium, will dose a score of 

 lambs, about three quarters of a year old. Many flocks of 

 lambs having been kept very short of food during the late 

 dry summer, numbers have died from eating the young 

 succulent grass, which sprung up when the rain came. 

 Ewes injured in lambing : apply into the parts warm 

 water, and after, warm fresh grease ; and then, out- 

 side, some known good oils ; give a drachm of Peruvian 

 bark and ginger in gruel, new-milk warm, made of linseed 

 and oatmeal ; add a table- spoonful of gin or brandy, and 

 treacle. To prevent the fly : a powder, composed of white 

 lead and white arsenic, to be shaken on with an old pepper 

 box ; it is to be had, ready prepared, of any druggist. 

 The most fatal disease is the rot, which is thought to be 

 incurable ; but I know from experience, that the progress 

 of the disease may be so checked, that the animal will get 

 fat enough for the butcher. There are various opinions as 

 to the way in which this disease is contracted. 1 have ever 

 thought it has been by the sheep eating in summer, or 

 autumn, the grass of flooded meadows, or swampy pas- 

 tures, on which some sort of grub had deposited its larvae, 

 which are not destroyed by the heat of the stomach, but 

 mixing with the chyle, find their way into the vessels of 

 the liver, where they become what are commonly called 

 flukes, from their resemblance in shape, to flounders ; 

 there they absorb the chief nourishment of the blood of the 

 animal, and then, in a short time, cause its death. It may 

 fairly be asked, how is it that beasts eating the same grass 

 are not affected by it? The reason probably is, that the 

 digestion of an ox or cow is so much stronger, that the 

 larvae are destroyed, and carried away with the food. 



An eminent surgeon has informed me that there is no 

 communication with the stomach and the liver, but as he 

 cannot in any way account for the fleuks getting into the 

 liver, I do not give up my opinion. I am strengthened too 

 in my belief from its being well known, that after a frost of 

 48 hours, or less, sheep may safely be kept in a pas- 

 ture, which, had they been put in before the frost (even for 

 one day), would certainly in the course of two or three 



