1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS.

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No. 476. Prevention and Cure of the Foot-JRot in Sheep. On suspected ground, constant and careful ex- amination ought to take place ; and when any fis- sures or cracks, attended with heat, make their ap- pearance, apply oil of turpentine and common brandy. This in general produces a very beneficial eftect ; but where the disease has been long seated, and becomes in a manner confirmed, after cleaning the foot and paring away the infected parts, recourse is had to caustics, of w^hich the best seems to be sul- phuric acid and the nitrate of mercury. After this, pledgets are applied, the foot bound up, and the animal kept in a clean dry situation until its re- covery is eftected. But it often happens, where the malady is in- veterate, that the disease refuses to yield to any oi all of the above prescriptions. The following mode of treatment, however, if carefully attended to, may be depended upon as a certain cure. Whenever the disease makes its appearance, let the foot be carefully examined, and the diseased part well washed, and pared as nigh as possible not to make it bleed ; and let the floor of the house where the sheep are confined be strewn 3 or 4 inches thick with quick-lime hot from the kiln ; and the sheep, after having their feet dressed in the manner above described, to stand in it during the space of 6 or 7 hours. In all cases, it is of great importance that the animal be afterwards exposed only to a moderate