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Remedies. — Cooling medicines, such as antimonial 

 preparations, are useful in this complaint. Give a 

 dose of from one ounce to one ounce and a half of 

 Epsom salts for three days successively, after half-a- 

 pint of blood has been taken from the animal. Then 

 let half-an-ounce of purified nitre be given for two 

 days thereafter, when generally a cure will be effected. 

 Sir George Mackenzie recommends the salts and nitre 

 to be given in a cold state, which he says will prove 

 more powerful, and more beneficial. The parts which 

 are most inflamed should be washed with goulard- 

 water, to cool them. 



CRAMP OF THE LEGS, OR WOOD-EVIL. 



Cold is the cause of this complaint, which 

 suddenly seizes sheep, and renders them incapable 

 of walking, by partially paralysing the action of the 

 nerves of the limbs. 



Remedies. — A teaspoonful of mustard given night 

 and morning for some days has been found to restore 

 power to the limbs, while they are rubbed twice or 

 thrice a day with strong camphorated spirit of wine, 

 mixed with about a fourth of that quantity of spirit 

 of turpentine. This is applied with a flannel rubber. 

 Let the animal be kept very warm, and the following 

 prescription given twice a day : — 



Ground cinnamon . . i ounce, 



Caraway-seeds, ground . . i ounce, 

 Linseed-meal . . . ij ounce ; 



to be made into six balls. 



LEG-EVIL. 



This is a complaint in which the legs are liable 

 to considerable swelling, which sometimes ends in 



