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besmear it afresh ; take care that the band be long enough to 

 enable you to tie it, to prevent its slipping out. On the fifth 

 or sixth day, when the pock is charged with matter, the linen 

 or band may be drawn, and the above remedy dispensed with. 



" When the blood is not freed from pock matter, it often 

 produces (when the pox is already cured) a swelling in one or 

 other part of the body ; as soon as such swelling is come to 

 maturity, it ought to be opened, and the matter washed away 

 quickly. If the eyes should be closed with a swelling, they 

 must be often bathed with water, and when opened the matter 

 carefully washed away. The following remedies may be 

 applied in cases of malignant small pox. The pustules seldom 

 burst without assistance, but the matter they contain spread- 

 ing continually, they ought to be opened with a sharp-pointed 

 knife as soon as they are in a state of maturity ; and after 

 squeezing out the matter, to be washed with a solution of salt 

 and water until a cure is performed. 



" As the small pox is very contagious, it is necessary to 

 guard against it as much as possible, and when discovered 

 to separate the sheep affected from the rest of the flock, and 

 place them in another stable, which ought to be fumigated 

 with jumper berries twice a day at least; the manure taken 

 out, and fresh straw put in daily; besides, the stable must 

 (after the complaint has subsided) be scoured with a solution 

 of wood ashes, and then fumigated with chlorine, before it is 

 made use of to receive sound sheep. 



" In summer, sheep affected with the small pox may be 

 driven in fine weather for a few hours, morning and evening, 

 in the field, but care must be taken they do not go near the 

 sound ones ; the latter must not go into the field where the 

 former have grazed: in general, all communication, of what- 

 ever nature it may be, between the sick and sound sheep must 

 be avoided, and the shepherd who conducts and has care of 

 the sick sheep should take care not to approach the sound 

 sheep, lest he should communicate the contagion." 



In 1760, healthy sheep were inoculated with the virus of 

 the diseased ones, and the effects were found analogous to 

 those of inoculation for small pox among human subjects. A 

 disease having the same character was produced, but it was 

 mild and rarely mortal. In a paper in the London Farmer's 

 Magazine, September, 1848, Mr. O. Delafond states that to 

 sum up the recorded cases of inoculations made in France, 

 by Huard, Valois, Langlois, Guillaume, Buignot, D'Ai-boval, 

 Gragnier, Girard, etc., between 1805 and 1848, the number of- 



