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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
soon afterwards a discharge of saliva takes place from the 
mouth, and accompanied by swelling of the belly. 
Causes. —Cold and wet are the chief sources of this com¬ 
plaint, as well as many others in sheep. The skin being 
fretted by the wet, watery blisters rise on it. Sometimes, 
however, the animal is affected with internal cold, which 
produces a slight febrile attack, and causes these watery 
vesicles to appear on the skin, and are similar to the eruptions 
which are produced about the mouth and face of many indi¬ 
viduals when they have caught a severe cold. This affec¬ 
tion has but little influence on the blood, although a small 
portion of it finds its way into the vesicles under the skin, 
and produces that red tinge to the thin glary matter of 
these little blisters, from which the name of the complaint 
is derived. 
Remedies. —The first thing to be done when the disease 
is violent, is to remove the animal to a place by itself, take 
a small quantity of blood, and then the vesicles should be 
laid open by means of a small knife, scalpel, or lancet; 
after which let each of them be well washed out with an 
infusion of tobacco. Afterwards administer the following 
for three or four successive mornings :— 
Sulphur, in powder . 2 ounces, 
Treacle, or syrup . . 3 ounces, 
Nitre ^ ounce ; 
to be made into six doses, and given them in the form of a 
ball, or in half-a-pint of water, a little warmed. On the 
seventh morning give the animal an ounce of Epsom salts ; 
and on the following or next day, wash the whole parts 
affected with lime-water, and the sheep may then be con¬ 
sidered as cured. 
