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adopted in that country as more full, in some important 

 particulars, than the preceding, and as describing, in detail, 

 some of the minor manipulations and precautions necessary in 

 treating the malady. In this light, it is a useful addition to 

 the preceding prescriptions. If not adopted fuUy in this 

 country — should the imfortunate occasion arise for our 

 combating this malady — it at least furnishes useful hints. 

 Professor A. Numann, of the Veterinary College of Utrecht, 

 in his work on the diseases of animals, writes as follows : 



" When the sheep eat freely and appear playful, while 

 the pox comes out regularly, breaks, and dries up, no medicine 

 is requisite ; but should they lose their appetite, show an 

 inclination to lie down, the heart beating quick and strong, 

 and the pox not make its appearance on the third day, then 

 nature requires assistance to drive the diseases outward ; to 

 this efffect the following remedy is necessary: 



"'Take 2 oz. of juniper berries pulverized; a root of parsely 

 cut, and split peas reduced to a powder, two handfuls each : 

 boil all this in 4 lbs. of water ; clear it off, mix in it -J oz. 

 camphor, which has been previously dissolved in the yolk of 

 an egg, and 1 oz. of good wine vinegar : this mixture to be 

 divided in eight parts, one part to be administered night and 

 morning till the pox is forced out. To obtain this point the 

 following remedy will also be found efficacious : — Take flour 

 of brimstone f oz., the juniper berries, to be pulverized, the 

 camphor mixed with the yolk of an egg, and the whole mixed 

 with 4 oz. honey : to be divided in eight parts, one part to be 

 given at night and morning. 



" The stable in which the sheep are kept should be dry 

 and airy, and not too warm ; they ought to have fine, sweet 

 hay, with barley straw cut very fine, which may be mixed 

 with wheat bran moistened, bruised barley or flour of rice ; a 

 little salt to be mixed daily with it. When the pox is thrown 

 out without containing any matter, the first given remedy is to 

 be applied, and a seton to be set in the chest and each loin, 

 which is to be effected in the following manner. Shear off 

 the wool, to the size of a hand's breadth, from the part where 

 you wish to place the seton ; cut two small holes, the one 

 above the other, through the hide, at a distance of three 

 fingers ; loosen the communication between one incision and 

 the other by means of a fiat stick ; then draw through the 

 opening a piece of linen half a finger's breadth, of which that 

 part that goes under the hide must be besmeared on both 

 sides with butter ; the next day draw the band a little and 



