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DISEASES OF SHEEP. 



out of little pustules under the armpits, near Jhe eyes and near the 

 nostrils, which in three days come to a head, and take a red and then 



Pig. 1194. — Discrete Form. 



a, Eruptive stage; b, Pustular stage. 



Fig. 1195. — Confluent Form. 



a white appearances About the sixth day the pustule is about 

 mature, and it cbntains a liquid. Then there is a /discharge, and 

 then crusts. In the confluent condition, the pustules are in .connec- 

 tion, the eyes discharge an agglomerated purulent secretion, and are 

 blood-shpt, and the creature has intense thirst ; the breathing is 

 quick, the nostrils may discharge heavily ; the breath sometimes 

 becomes fetid, and the stench frorh the disease is almost unbearable. 

 In this case there is a complication of trouble of the respiratory 

 organs. 



Medicines have little power in the 

 sheep-pox; The only method of treat- 

 ment is warm, dry stables, acidulated 

 water, avoiding cold, and giving laxative 

 food and warm broth or drinks, and 

 killing hopeless cases at once. Innoc- 

 ulation of the whole flock reduces the 

 chances of danger and death, and causes 

 the treatment to be carried on all at once. 

 Charbon, Quarter III, or Anthrax : Fever, sometimes 

 also called Blood Striking (see Charbon in cattle), and in the 

 Western States Murrain, is speedily fatal, the dead and fetid car- 

 cass being usually found in the morning, though the flock appeared 

 healthy at night. The symptoms are plethora, fever, -red eyes, 



Fig. 1196.— Ecthyma. 



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