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Diseases of Sheep, 



No. 3. 



Flowers of Sulphur ... o.. 1 J lb. 

 White Hellebore, in powder .... 4 

 Train Oil ...,<,.... 1 gallon 

 To be kept stirred whilst using ; many add red ochre, but it stains the 

 wool, and is of no material benefit. If a powder be preferred, one pound 

 of white lead must be added instead of the oil, to be dusted on with a 

 flour-dredge, and afterwards sprinkled over with water, and rubbed well 

 in to make it adhere. 



No. 4. 



Soft Soap 15 lbs. 



Tobacco 2 „ 



Arsenic 2 „ . 



These ingredients are to be put together into an iron pot, and boiled 

 with five pails of soft water for half an hour. To two pails of this 

 mixture when boiling hot add five of cold water, to render it about 

 new milk warm, and as it wastes in the operation of dipping it must be 

 renewed in the same proportions. The lamb must be immersed in the 

 liquid, with the exception of its head, for a few seconds ; a sort of cradle 

 or ladder must then be put across the tub, so as to admit of placing the 

 lamb on it, whilst the superfluous water is again pressed from it. This 

 will be sufficient for 150 lambs. 



No. 5. 



Blue Vitriol J ounce 



Gunpowder 1 „ 



Rubbed together into a fine powder, and mixed with hogs'-lard suffi- 

 cient to make the whole into the consistency of a paste. This recipe 

 has been practically found to be an excellent remedy, although the 

 second of its ingredients is not a recognised article of materia medica. 

 The following is certainly more scientific and perhaps equally effica- 

 cious : — 



Acetate of Lead (or Sugar of Lead) . 1 ounce 

 Sub -Acetate of Copper (or Verdigris) . J „ 

 Sulphate of Copper (or blue Vitriol) . J „ 



Formed into a paste in the same manner as the other. 



No. 6 (Mr. Clater's Recipe.). 



Nitre, in powder 6 ounces 



Ginger, fresh powdered .... 4 „ 



Red Oxide of Iron (or Colcothar), in 



fine powder . . . 2 ,, 



Common Salt 3 J lbs. 



Boiling water 3 gallons 



Pour the water hot upon the ingredients ; stir them, and when lukewarm 

 add to every quart of the mixture 3 ounces of spirit of turpentine, and 

 bottle for use,, Dose : 4 table-spoonfuls every fourth day fasting, re- 

 peated for three times. 



