CHAPTER XXIV. 

 DISEASES or THE DIGESTIVE OEGAUS. 



BIAIIT — OESTBtrCTIONS 01" THE GULLET — THE STOMACHS 



AND THEIK DISEASES EXTEElirAL AND INTEENAL APPEAE- 



ANCE 01" THE STOMACHS— THE MODE Or ADMINISTEEING 

 MEDICINES INTO THE STOMACHS OF SHEEP — HOOVE — ^POISONS 



INFLAMMATION OF THE ETTMEN, OE PAUNCH OBSTEUC- 



TION OF THE MANIPLUS ACUTE DEOPST, OE BED - WATEE 



ENTBEITIS, OE INFLAMMATION OF THE COATS OF THE 



INTESTINES DIAEEHEA DTSENTEKT CONSTIPATION 



COLIC, OE STEETCHES BEAXT, OE INFLAMMATION OP THE 



BOWELS WOEMS PINING. 



Blain. — This malady, as has been remarked, is. unknown 

 in the United States. The following is Mr. Youatt's descrip- 

 tion of its Symptoms and treatment : 



" Sheep are liable, although not so much as cattle, to that 

 inflammation of the tongue, or rather of the cellular tissue on 

 the side of and under the tongue, to which the above singular 

 names are given. A few sheep in the flock are occasionally 

 attacked by it, or it appears under the form of an epidemic. 

 A discharge of saliva runs from the mouth; at first colorless 

 and devoid of smell, but soon becoming bloody, purulent and 

 stinking. The head and neck begin to swell, and the animal 

 breathes with difficulty, and- is sometimes sufibcated. A 

 succession of vesicles have risen along the side of the tongue — 

 they have rapidly grown — :they have broken — they have 

 become gangrenous — they have formed deep ulcers, or 

 deeper abscesses that occasionally hieak outwardly. When 

 this is the case it is probably the " Greathead " of Mr. 

 Hogg. The_ cause is some unknown atmospheric influence ; 

 tut the sheep have been predisposed to be afiected by it, 

 either by previous unhealthy weather, by feediog on unwhole- 

 some herbage, or by unnecessary exposure to, cold and wet. 



