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of the breath and skin, and formation of pus, mercurius will be invaluable. 
Sulphur is efficacious when scabs are forming, and for completing a cure 
when it has begun. All objects that have been touched by the infected 
sheep should be thoroughly rubbed with strong carbolic acid. 
Owing to the malignant character of the disease it is better not to 
undertake any treatment unless the infection has spread so far that the 
slaughter would involve a heavy loss. If it is detected. in time, the safer 
and cheaper plan is to kill and bury or burn the infected ones and thus cut 
short the malady. “When it has gained a start, good results may be ob- 
tained by inoculating the well with the virus of the sick, since it has been 
clearly proved that the disease taken by inoculation is much less fatal than 
when occurring by the natural mode of infection. 
WOUNDS, SPRAINS, FRACTURES, ETC. 
The suitable description and treatment of all such injuries as Cuts, 
Wounds in general, Dislocations, Fractures, Sprains, and the like, may be 
gamed by reference to the sections devoted to them respectively in the 
Horse. Severe cases are best treated by an immediate slaughter, before 
the incident derangement of the system so far advances as to render the 
flesh unfit for food. 
FEVERS, RHEUMATISM, DROPSY, ETC. 
For the various forms of Fever, Rheumatism and Dropsy, the reader 
should refer to these diseases as they are found in the Horse and Ox. It 
may be said that a form of Dropsy known as Red-Water occurs quite 
often in sheep when they are first fed on turnips, and in lambs that are 
weaned in cold, damp surroundings. This type requires good shelter, a 
cliange of diet, and the treatment, in general, laid down for Dropsy in the Ox. 
Disorders which occur more or less often in the sheep, and are not 
mentioned in this part of the work because they are sufficiently considered 
with reference to the Ox, are Thrush, Inflammation of the Bowels, Inflam- 
mation of the Spleen, Constipation, Loss of Appetite and Cud, Black 
Quatter, and several easily recognized diseases of the Skin. 
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