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CONTENTS. 



only be palliative — Proper diet for diseased sheep — Benefit 

 of salt— Necessity for use of the salts of iron — Therapeutic 

 action of these agents — Use of stomachics — Formula for a 

 nitrngenised focd-compound with therapeutic agents — Em- 

 ployment of anthelmintics — Use of oil of turpentine in com- 

 bination with other medicaments — Report of the employment 

 of a French remedy for the cure of rot, presented to the 

 Royal Agricultural Society 81-91 



14. Pkevektion of the Disease : — 



General value of prophylactic measures — Leonard Mascall's 

 plan of prevention — His recommendation of large doses of 

 salt — Estimate of the quantity by the probable size of the 

 bushel in Mascall's time — Danger of the quantity recom- 

 mended — Gervase Markham's method of preventing rot — His 

 allusions to the advantages of placing sheep on salt marshes 

 — Price's statements with regard to the practice — Plan 

 adopted in Italy and Spain — Explanation of the cause of the 

 immunity of sheep from rot when pastured on salt marshes 

 — Crawshey's means of saving sheep from rot — Bradley's re- 

 commendation of juniper-berries in combination with salt 

 and oats — Ellis's comments on the protective influence of 

 the Scotch and other firs — General principles on which pre- 

 vention rests — Localities in which rot persists — Necessity of 

 under-draining wet lands — The Condition of the grass-land 

 farms in the Harrow district with reference to the continuance 

 of rot and their want of under-draining — Parkinson's state- 

 ments of the disappearance of the disease on his father's farm 

 by draining — Necessity to destroy the immature forms of 

 the fluke to give security to sheep — The use of salt and sul- 

 phate of iron— A medicated food-compound recommended as 

 a preventive — Manner of using it — Time necessary for its 

 continuance — Danger of using salt with " in-lamb ewes " — 

 Abortion caused by salt— Inutility of sowing salt on land to 

 destroy the embryos of the fluke— Benefit of liming retentive 

 soils — Veterinary medicine and agriculture kindred sciences 

 -^Summary of preventive measures— Conclusion .. .. 91-100 



