DISEASES OF SHEEP 367 



Lameness. Going on the knees. Foot rot. Sore feet. 



In the hind limbs. Paralysis, due to brain disease. 

 Leaping motions- Louping ill. Myelitis. Congestion of the brain. 

 Lips sore. Aphtha, injury by stubble pasturing. Fevers. Effects 



of Porcupine grass. (Stipa Spartea.) Fevers. 

 Loco. Insanity from eating crazy weed (Astragalus Mollismus-or 



Oxytropis Lambert!) . 

 Liver, spotted. Congestion. Inflammation. Flukes and other 



worms, in gall bladder and ducts. 



Milt, soft, black and swollen. Anthrax, Splenic fever. 

 Moving in circles or straight ahead with head up. Cysts of the 



bladder tape worm (Coenurus cerebralis). 

 Neck stiff. Myelitis. Rheumatism. 



Paralysis. Disease of the brain. Myelitis. Injury to spinal cord. 

 Loco weeds. Ergot from smutty grass, corn fodder, or 

 grain. Indigestion. Exposure to cold rain. In young lambs 

 inherited. 



Pawing. Indigestion. Impaction of stomach. 

 Scours, white in lambs. Indigestion. Effects of diseases of the 



bowels or liver in ewes. 



Shivering. Fevers. Anthrax. Splenic fever. 

 Skin, Pale. Thread worms in throat. 



Red. Congestion. First indication of scab. 



Yellow. Disease of liver. Fluke disease. Disease of liver by 



tape worms. 

 Slobbering. Indigestion. Sore mouth. Diseased teeth. Poisoning 



by laurel or loco weeds. 



Sneezing. Grubs in head. Influenza: Catari'h. 

 Snorting. Grub in head- 



Spasmodic motions. Meningitis. Hydatids in brain. 

 Stiffness of limbs and neck. Rheumatism. Myelitis. 

 Staggering. Inflammation of the brain. Poisoning by laurel and 



loco weeds. Cysts of tape worms in the brain. 

 Stomach bloated. Hoven or bloating. Indigestion. Poisoning. 

 Stupor. Disease of brain the last and hopeless stage. Epi- 

 zootic influenza. Last stage of diseases of the lungs and 

 pleuro-pneumonia. 



Teeth grating. Indigestion. Fluke disease. Poisoning. 

 Throat glands swollen. Dropsy. Disease of the thyroid gland, es- 

 pecially prevalent in lambs. 

 Soft swelling. Liver disease. Dropsy. Tape and other 



worms producing general debility. Fluke disease- 

 Trembling. Disease of the brain. Myelitis. Poisoning, especially 



by laurel. 



Urine, red. Disease of the bladder, by gravel or stone, or inflam- 

 mation. 



Disease of the liver a result of indigestion. 

 Disease of the kidneys. 

 Dark red. Anthrax. Splenic fever. 

 Vulva, red. Indication of heat in ewes. 



Red and swollen. Premonitory of abortion. 



