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214. The claveau or sheep pox is also another variety of this dis- 

 ease, in Avhich it takes on a pustular form. About the third day 

 small variolfe appear : sometimes they are rather blotches than pus- 

 tules. The weakness is usually extreme, and the putridity great. 

 Tliis form of the disease is seldom seen with us ; but it is still 

 known on the continent, where the pastures are very poor and 

 low, and the general keeping meagre. 



215. The treatment of all tliese in no wise differs from that di- 

 rccted under the inflammatory putrid fever of the ox. The doses 

 of medicines being about a third of what is directed for them. 



216. Malignant epidemic or murrain. Sometimes an epidemic 

 prevails which greatly resembles the murrain of oxen ; in appear- 

 ances, termination, and treatment it resembles malignant epidemic 

 of oxen. (178.) 



217. Peripneumonia or inflamed lungs, rising of the lights, glan- 

 derous rot, hose, ^c. These terms are all modifications of an in- 

 flamed state of the viscera of the chest, caught by undue exposure, 

 bad pasturage, and often from over driving. The cough, trem- 

 blings, the redness of the eyes and nostrils, and the distillation of 

 a fluid from them, with the heavings and hot breath, are all simi- 

 lar to those which characterize pneumonia or rising of the lights 

 in oxen. We remember to have seen the disease strongly marked 

 in the February of 1808, on a farm in the neighbourhood of Streat- 

 ham ; where eleven sheep were attacked almost together, after a 

 very stormy night. They were first affected by a loss of appetite ; 

 next with a fixed steadfast look, which was common to every one 

 After this, they reeled about, fell backwards and became convulsed. 

 When seen, five were almost dead, whose internal appearances 

 fully confirmed the nature of the disease. The rest recovered by 

 bleeding and drenching, with drenches composed of nitre and tar- 

 tar emetic. Sometimes the symptoms of pneumonia do not kill 

 immediately, but degenerate into an ulceration of the lungs ; which 

 is then called the glanderous rot. This stage is always fatal : the 

 others may, by early attention, be combatted by judicious treat- 

 ment, as detailed under the same disease in oxen. 



218. A chronic cough in sheep, when not symptomatic of rot, is 

 always cured by a change of pasturage, particularly into a salt 

 mash. 



219. Ivfiammation of the stomach occurs from various causes. A 



