930 DISEASES OF SHEEP 



Bleeding is held by good authorities to be injurious, as are also 

 violent purgatives. ' 



Parturient Paralysis. — Th& is treated under the head of 

 Nervous Diseases. 



Garget.— Though not a very prevalent disease among sheep, 

 garget is one which, when it occurs, should be treated with prompt- 

 ness. It is an inflammation of the udder and milk glands. Its 

 symptoms are enlargement of the udder, which becomes red, hot, 

 and so, sensitive that the ewe sometimes refuses the lamb. The 

 udder should be fomented with warm water and a warm linseed-meal 

 poultice applied for twelve hours or more, removing it to draw the 

 milk. Bleeding to the extent of half a pint from the large vein 

 which runs under the belly, if the inflammation is high, is beneficial. 

 Mix for one dose, and administer internally — 



Nitrate of potash.' } dr. 



Bi-carbonate of soda .' . . 1 oz. 



Sulphate of magnesia. .• 2 oz. 



Water ; t 8 oz. 



Then give morning, and night one half dram nitra,te of potash 

 and 10 to 20 grains of nux vomica, with say one half ounce bi-car- 

 bonate of soda. 



MISCELLANEOUS. . 



Rheumatism, when it passes from the acute to the chronic 

 stage, causes serious changes in the structure of the joints or muscles . 

 affected. Its symptoms are general uneasiness and stiffness, swell- 

 ing of the joint or joints, diminished appetite, and sometimes sus- 

 pended rumination. The dung is hard and scanty, and the urine 

 high-colored and deficient. A moderate purgative like this may be- 

 given first : — 



Ginger v ;• 1 dr. 



Epsom salts 2 oz. 



Spirits nitrous ether 4 oz. 



Water. , 4 oz. 



and afterward give one dram of salicylate of soda to be dissolved in 

 warm water night and morning. 



Castration. — The earlier this is performed, the less danger 

 there is of any evil consequence resulting. A lamb a week old may 

 be deprived of the whole scrotum and testicles by a single stroke of 

 the shears, without much danger ; but when it is some months old, 

 and the organ has become fully developed, far more care in the 

 operation must be observed. A good plan is for the operator to sit 

 on a long bench, with one of the lamb's hind legs beneath each of 

 his thighs, while the fore legs are held by an assistant, then taking 



