CHAPTER XVI. 



DISEASES OF THE SHEEP. 



INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS— DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND 

 SPINAL MARROW— STURDY OR DIZZY— HYDROCEPHALUS— 'f REM 

 BLING— APOPLEXY. THE AIR PASS AGES — CESTEIS OVIS OR GAD 

 FLY, CAUSING WORMS IN THE HEAD— CORYZA OR COLDS. DIS 

 EASES OP THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES — HOOVE— BRAXY- 

 STRETCHES— DIARRHOEA OR SCOURS— ACUTE DROPSY OR RED WA., 

 TER— DYSENTERY— POISON. DISEASES OP THE LUNGS— ANATOMY 

 OP THE LIVER-ROT— INFLAMMATION OP THE LUNGS — DROPSY. 

 DISEASES OF PARTURITION— ABORTION— INVERSION OP THE UTE- 

 RUS—GARGET. THE INTEGUMENT OR SKIN —DISEASES OF THE 

 SKIN— SCAB OR ITCH— ERYSIPELAS— JOHNSWORT-SCAB-PELT-ROT 

 —SOKE MOUTH— MAGGOTS. FOOT-ROT— FOULS. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



There is no department in the management of sheep so 

 little understood as the nature and treatment of their dis- 

 eases. Happily, however, for the American shepherd, 

 many of the diseases which prove so destructive in Great 

 Britain, are here of rare occurrence. From this circum- 

 stance, the compiler of the following treatise has been com- 

 pelled to rely on Messrs. Youatt and Blacklock, both distin- 

 guished veterinary surgeons, for much information concern- 

 ing those diseases, which, with us, are but partially known. 

 It is proper therefore to affirm, that this treatise has been 

 compiled from the most approved authorities — from personal 

 knowledge of the writer of some diseases which are most 

 common to the country, as well from careful comparison of 

 the opinions and experience of some of the most distin- 

 guished breeders of sheep in this and the 'Eastern States ; 

 and hence, he has every reason for believing that the pre 

 monitory symptoms, preventives, and treatment of every dis 

 ease, which will be noticed, are entitled to the implicit con 

 fidence of the American shepherd. 

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