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gruel may be administered, with a small quantity of ginger ; or, 
if he does not soon begin to rally, a little ale may be added to 
the gruel. I would hardly allow any thing stronger. Mr. Gar- 
land recommended that his patients should be bathed in warm 
water for a quarter of an hour every day. “ This,” he says, 
“was of considerable benefit, and in a few weeks they were 
enabled to stand ; but when we ceased to bathe them, they be- 
came rapidly worse than before, and were killed.” Moderate 
warmth is the 'principal restorative ; but as soon as the lamb 
begins to recover, and is able to toddle a little about, he should be 
returned to his mother, who has, in the mean time, been removed 
to a more comfortable place, and her care of him and her milk 
will gradually accomplish a cure. 
Diarrhoea . — The organic system, however, does not appear so 
soon and so perfectly to rally as that of voluntary motion. The 
limbs lose their rigidity, but the digestive organs imperfectly 
discharge their functions. The frequent, or, to a certain extent, 
the jfimost invariable consequence of this exhaustion, is diarrhoea, 
difficult to arrest, and soon assuming a serious character. The 
best, and indeed the only, safe and efficacious remedy that I 
know, is that which, differently prepared by different persons, 
goes under the name of “the sheep and calves' cordial.” It is 
composed of prepared chalk as an antacid, the acescent principle 
often sadly prevailing in these patients, and at this time; catechu, 
as an astringent ; ginger, as the very best stomachic and tonic 
that we have — a tonic because a stomachic ; opium in the form 
of laudanum, allaying the irritability of the exhalent vessels, 
and the inflammation of the mucous membrane of the intestinal 
canal ; and peppermint water as a menstruum, a vehicle, and yet, 
by its stimulant and tonic power, preventing the formation or 
assisting in the expulsion of those gases, which in every derange- 
ment of the digestive organs are so annoyingly and dangerously 
extricated in the stomachs of ruminants. The proportions of the 
ingredients would probably be one pound of the prepared chalk, 
half a pound of powdered catechu, four ounces of powdered 
ginger, and a pint each of the laudanum and peppermint water. 
Palsy at Weaning-time . — Two or three months afterwards 
comes another dangerous season as it regards the lambs — the 
time of weaning, and especially if the weather should be cold. 
They are then often turned into some distant and, perhaps, upland 
pasture, that the mother and the young ones may be out of the 
hearing of each others bleating ; and that the food may not be 
too plentiful or stimulating until the lamb is somewhat accus- 
tomed to his new kind of nourishment. Notwithstanding every 
precaution, however, purging will come on, and cold will be 
