WOOD-EVIL—LEG-EVIL. 
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days successively, after half-a-pint of blood has been taken 
from the animal. Then let half-an-ounce of purified nitre 
be given for two days thereafter, when generally a cure will 
be effected. Sir George Mackenzie recommends the salts 
and nitre to be given in a cold state, which he says will 
prove more powerful, and more beneficial. The parts which 
are most inflamed should be washed with goulard-water, to 
cool them. 
CRAMP OF THE LEGS, OR WOOD-EVIL. 
Cold is the cause of this complaint, which suddenly seizes 
sheep, and renders them incapable of walking, by partially 
paralysing the action of the nerves of the limbs. 
Remedies. —A teaspoonful of mustard given night and 
morning for some days has been found to restore power to 
the limbs, while they are rubbed twice or thrice a day with 
strong camphorated spirit of wine, mixed with about a 
fourth of that quantity of spirit of turpentine. This is 
applied with a flannel rubber. Let the animal be kept very 
warm, and the following prescription given twice a day :— 
Ground cinnamon . . 1 ounce, 
Caraway-seeds, ground . 1 ounce, 
Lintseed-meal . . \i> ounce; 
to be made into six balls. 
LEG-EVIL. 
This is a complaint in which the legs are liable to con¬ 
siderable swelling, which sometimes ends in mortification 
and death. Sheep which are attacked by this complaint 
should be immediately taken into the house, and their legs 
well washed with soda and water ; and after they are quite 
dry, let them be properly anointed with citric or nitric 
ointment When the swelling suppurates, it should be 
