Contagious and Epizootic Diseases. 9 



lambs by abortion, of wool, sight, hearing, hoofs, digits, 

 flesh, and general vigor often render recoveries anything 

 but unmixed blessings. 



Treatment. — Keep in cool, dry, weU-aired and littered 

 sheds, shelter from rain, and feed roots, or, if very weak, 

 oat and bean meal gruels, with a drachm of saltpetre tc 

 oach sheep. Common salt may be suppUed to be licked, 

 and t}je di-inking water may be slightly acidulated with 

 vinegar. The bowels should be opened by injections of 

 milk-warm soapsuds, or 3oz. sulphate of soda if necessary. 

 Avoid heating agents. In the advanced stages support 

 by quinia, gentian, nitric acid, and nutritious gruels, even 

 animal broths. The pustules may be treated with the 

 ointment advised for cow-pox, or, if unhealthy, with weak 

 solutions of chloride of zinc. 



Prevention. — Nothing short of general infection will 

 justify the treatment of this disease. It should be ex- 

 cluded from our country by the most stringent supervision 

 over the importation of sheep and their products, and 

 when it does appear should be promptly stamped out by 

 the destruction and disinfection of the sick and the pu- 

 rification of all with which they have come in contact. 

 Inoculation as a measure of prevention is unwarrantable 

 except in the case of wide-spread infection, a contingency 

 which ought never to arise in this country. 



GOAT-POX. 



This is a rare and mild aifection with an eruption on 

 the udder and teats closely resembling that of Coic-pox. 

 It has been thought to be spontaneous in the goat but is 

 known to be derived from sheep suffering from Sheep-pox. 

 It follows a mUd course and requires the same care as Coiv- 

 pox. Seclusion or destruction and disinfection, are, how- 

 ever, imperative when danger is likely to arise for sheep. 



SWINE-POX. 



This is more frequent than Goat-Pox. It is communioa- 



