CHAPTER XV 



DISEASES 



Keeping in mind that this manual is designed for 

 flockowners the majority of whom have no technical 

 medical knowledge, only such ailments and disorders 

 will be discussed as the intelligent flockmaster can 

 detect from descriptions, and treat, when treatment 

 is practical, with a reasonable degree of success. The 

 deeply hidden and complicated constitutional dis- 

 orders will be left for special medical works. 



Parasitism. — Sheep suffer to a far greater extent 

 from parasites than all other ailments combined. 

 Could the external and internal parasites of sheep 

 be annihilated, sheep and their owners would have 

 nearly all their troubles removed. The sheep more 

 than any other domestic animal suffers from internal 

 parasites. There are two invading the lungs, two the 

 stomach, a half-dozen the intestine, one the liver, and 

 two, in the cyst form, the brain. 



Gid, turn-sickness, or sturdy. — The cysts invading 

 the brain and accredited with producing gid are a 

 transitional form of a tapeworm which in its adult 

 stage is found in the dog and other canine species. 

 The symptoms of this ailment are nervous twitching 



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