BLOOD AND NERVE DISEASES. 901 



or less separated from one another. These pustules mature, and a 

 pus which is sometimes bloody oozes from the sore. 



Puncture the pustules, apply oily or mucilaginous lotions, and 

 later wash with sugar of lead and carbolic acid lotion. 



PSORIASIS. — This disease in the sheep is characterized by dry, 

 red, and scaly skin. The scales are like bran. When the skin is 

 pinched, it makes a crease that does not disappear immediately ; it 

 has lost its elasticity and softness. The wool is dry and without 

 luster. 



A good wash with castile soap once or twice a week ma/ effect 

 a cure. Sometimes it becomes necessary to apply a sulphurous 

 ointment, and to give small doses of Fowler's solution of, arsenic, as 

 in eczema. 



Insolation, or Solary Erythema, is 'due to. the action of 

 the hot rays of the sun on the skin and the organism, when the 

 sheep are exposed to them after shearing. The skin becomes red 

 in one or more places ; it may be only one small part, or a larger 

 one, of a circular form or irregular. Sometimes only the surface of 

 the skin is so affected, but occasionally the burn goes deeper and 

 deeper, and the surface of the skin becomes one or more large 

 crusts, which eventually fall off. In severe cases there is fever of 

 reaction and sometimes brain troubles. Place the subjects imme- 

 diately in a cool place .; bathe with cool lime-milk ; apply ice to the 

 head. On the crust apply carbolized oils. 



Influenza is marked by redness of the eyes and weeping, run- 

 ning at the nose, cough, loss of appetite, indigestion, and distention 

 of the rumen. It is most prevalent where miasmatic conditions of 

 soil and atmosphere exist. Linseed oiL-cake or similar food should 

 be given, and a dose consisting of twenty grains of chlorate of 

 potash, with fifteen grains of muriate of ammonia, may be adminis- 

 tered, with warm gruel as a diet. When constipation occurs, this 

 or a similar laxative may be given in a quarter pint of water :— 



Epsom salts 1 oz. 



Ginger. 1 dr. 



In severe cases the following should be administered : — 



Tincture of aconite 5 to 10 drops. 



Acetate of ammonia. 15 to 20 grs. 



Water 4 oz. 



To be given every four or six hours. 



Red-Water, or Bloopy Urine (sometimes called Water 

 Braxy), is denoted by dullness, languor, pallor of the skin and 



