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This disease is somewhat a.n.a.logous to scarlet fever. It makes its appearance in the form of red pustules on the back and belly, which gradually extend to the whole body. The external remedy is:--

Powdered bloodroot, half an ounce.

Boiling vinegar, 1 pint.

When cool, it should be rubbed on the external surface.

The diet should consist of boiled vegetables, coa.r.s.e meal, &c., with a small dose of sulphur every night.

DROPSY.

_Symptoms._--The animal is sad and depressed, the appet.i.te fails, respiration is performed with difficulty, and the belly swells.

_Treatment._--Keep the animal on a light, nutritive diet, and give a handful of juniper berries, or cedar buds, daily. If these fail, give a table-spoonful of fir balsam daily.

CATARRH.

_Symptoms._--Occasional fits of coughing, accompanied with a mucous discharge from the nose and mouth.

_Causes._--Exposure to cold and damp weather.

_Treatment._--Give a liberal allowance of gruel made with powdered elm or marshmallows, and give a tea-spoonful of balsam copaiba, or fir balsam, every night. The animal must be kept comfortably warm.

COLIC.

Spasmodic and flatulent colic requires antispasmodics and carminatives, in the following form:--

Powdered caraway seeds, 1 tea-spoonful.

” a.s.safoetida, one third of a tea-spoonful.

To be given at a dose in warm water, and repeated at the expiration of an hour, provided relief is not obtained.

DIARRHOEA.

For the treatment of this malady, see division SHEEP, article _Scours_.