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in 100 of water, in which the attendants are to wash their 
hands, arms, and every other naked part of their body. 
8. Empirics and others not qualified should abstain from 
bleeding or other surgical operations, as well as the manipu- 
lations of the mouths of infected animals. Exploration per 
anum is strictly forbidden even to qualified veterinary sur- 
geons. 
9. Attendants and veterinary practitioners must take special 
care against being soiled with blood, suppurative matter, 
lymph, or excrements. 
10. Milking of infected animals should be prohibited, in- 
asmuch as the milk is infectious, and the hands of the milkers 
are exposed to the contagion. 
11. In the skinning of sheep great precautions are neces- 
sary ; the hands should be protected with oilskin gloves, or 
well anointed with turpentine mixed with poppy oil in the 
proportion of two of the former to one of the latter. 
12. Those who have wounds or sores on their hands 
should not attempt the skinning of spleno-apoplectic animals. 
13. The skinning should not be undertaken until three 
hours after death. 
14. The knife used should be well oiled, and not be put 
between the teeth, as is frequently done, nor wiped on the 
clothes, but when done with carefully washed and dried. 
15. After the completion of the skinning, the shepherd 
should immediately wash thoroughly the face, hands, 
arms, and neck, with soap, or better, with chlorinated lime 
water. 
1 6. No time should be wasted in the operation of taking 
off the skin, but there is also considerable danger in too great 
a hurry or carelessness in this operation. 
17. The carcases must be forthwith removed finally, or 
when this cannot be done, they should be temporarily covered 
with earth. 
18. The temporary disposing of the carcase consists in 
covering it with earth, leaves, or straw, &c. The final, 
according to law, is to inter it in a hole six feet deep, and to 
cover it with a four inch layer of quick lime. 
19. For the interment isolated localities should be 
selected. 
20. Shepherd and other dogs should be shut up during the 
operation of skinning and removing of the carcases. 
21. The shepherd should not carry the skin about with 
him, nor take it into his house, but it should be rolled up, 
the wool inside, until the disinfection can be made. 
22. The method of disinfection is as follows: — The skin 
