268 DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



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DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



210. The diseases of sheep are numerous ; for these 

 animals are now so highly cultivated that they may be 

 regarded in some respects as artificial machines : and 

 thus, as a natural consequence, they are subject to a 

 variety of artificial defects and maladies. 



211. The rot is a popular term among shepherds, 

 and includes within its range diseases widely different. 

 We shall not therefore follow the custom of treating 

 the different rots of sheep together ; but we shall allow 

 them to fall in the natural order, according to the plan 

 pursued with the diseases of oxen. 



212. The inflammatory and putrid fever, popularly known by the 

 names higham striking or blood striking, does not differ materially 

 from the same disease in oxen and cows : and is in sheep also some- 

 times epidemic ; appearing by panting, dullness, watery mucus 

 from the nose and eyes, and great redness of all such parts as are 

 usually white. 



213. The red water. The inflammatory fever sometimes resolves 

 itself into an universal secretion of serum throughout all the cavi- 

 ties ; in which case after a few days, the lymph tinged witli blood 

 will come away from the nose and mouth in large quantities. Some- 

 times after death the bloody serum is found suffused throughout 

 the skin as in the blood striking of skins. 



