916 DISEASES OF SHEEP, 



mixture in equal parts of, sulphate of iron, gentian, and ginger, in 

 proportion of four ounces to every ten lambs of three months and 

 over. Abundant dry feeding and free access to salt are desirable. 

 Fo;- the intestinal parasites, a teaspoonful each of salt and oil of 

 turpentine may be given in milk every second day, before eating, 

 if possible. 



The following has been highly recommended : — 



Sulphate of magnesia 6 oz. 



Nitrate of potash '. .4 oz. 



Pour on this three pints of boiling water, and when the solu- 

 tion is milk warm, add — 



Oil of turpentine 4 oz. 



Bole armeniac J oz. 



Mix well, and give three or four tablespoonfuls every day. The 

 above will suffice for 160 lambs. 



Mr. FinlayDun recommends that when the lung-worms prevail, 

 lambs should have throughout the summer and fall months, about 

 once a fortnight, a dose of the following tonic and vermifuge 

 mixture : — 



Oil of turpentine 2 oz. 



Powdered gentian 2 oz. 



Laudanum 2 oz. 



Dissolve in, a quart of linseed tea or lime-water. This is enough for 

 ten or twelve doses. 



Prof. Townsend, of Ohio, a good authority, gives this formula : — 



Oil of turpentine ; '.'.'. J oz. 



Whisky .• 1 pt. 



Shake together, and give a teaspoonful once a day for a week or 

 two. 



Turnsick, Sturdy, or Gid. — This disease is occasioned by the 

 presence in the brain of the hydatid, or bladder-worm, scientifically 

 known as the ccenurus cerebralis. It has been ascertained that this 

 bladder-worm of the sheep is nothing else than a form of the tape- 

 worm of the dog (tcenia ccenurus) , at an earlier stage of its exist- 

 ence. The eggs of the latter, discharged in the dung 'of the dog 

 upon fields and pastures, are swallowed up by the sheep with the 

 herbage, and the larval state of the. worms is developed within their 

 bodies, in either the lungs, the abdomen, or the brain, causing a dis- 

 ease which is often fatal. The larvae of the tape-worm exist in the 

 shape of watery bladders, or sacs, which contain the undeveloped 

 worms. These peculiar creatures are what are known as bladder- 

 worms, or hydatids. One of these infests the abdominal cavity of 



