382 DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



symptoms which are common toother diseases of the same 

 animal. 



Prevention. — Two plans are resorted to for the purpose 

 of preventing the spread of the affection, which promise a 

 certainty of success. The first and best plan is, isolation 

 and destruction. This plan proved a great protection to 

 the sheep farmers of Wiltshire in 1862. In well known 

 epizootic diseases, and when individual cases occur which 

 when pointed out and well recognized, as soon as the 

 fever sets in, and before the eruptions appear, they 

 should be slaughtered at once and buried. The loss 

 of one or two sheep is nothing to the consequences of the 

 spread of a disease of this kind. By doing so the disease has 

 been known to be confined to a few cases in a large flock. 



Treatment. — In treating this disease, resort has been 

 had to a plant called sarracenia purpura^ Indian cup, or 

 pitcher plant, and used for treating this disease in man 

 by the Micmac tribe of Indians in British North Ame- 

 rica. (See Medicines in Part II. of the book.) Take 

 from one to two ounces of the root, (dried if to be had) 

 and slice it in thin pieces ; place in an earthen pot ; add 

 a quart of cold water, and allow the liquid to simmer 

 gently over a slow, steady fire from two to three hours, 

 so as to lose one-fourth of the quantity. Give of this 

 tea or decoction three wine-glassfuls at once, and the 

 same quantity from four to six hours after, when a cure 

 will generally be effected. Weaker and smaller doses 

 are certain preventives of small-pox, whether in men 

 or animals. The public are indebted to Dr. Norris, 

 Physician to the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Dispensary, for 

 the manner of preparing this highly important article. 

 Sulphurous acid gas will be found useful in small-pox. 

 For manner of using, see Part II. of the book. 



