A practical treatise on variola ovina, or small-pox in sheep, containing the history of its recent introduction into England; with the progress, symptoms, and treatment of the disease ... / [James Beart Simonds].

  • Simonds, James Beart.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A practical treatise on variola ovina, or small-pox in sheep, containing the history of its recent introduction into England; with the progress, symptoms, and treatment of the disease ... / [James Beart Simonds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MANAGEMENT AFTER INOCULATION. Ist erroneous, and that experience proves that the lambs born of sheep which had been affected with the natural clavelée, or of those which were imoculated during pregnancy, do not acquire an immunity thereby from the malady*.” The directions which have been given in our fourth chapter for the management and treatment of sheep infected with the natural disease, are equally applicable to those which have been ovinated, should the symptoms assume an aggravated form. Under ordinary circumstances, however, attention to the feed- ing and guarding of the patients against the vicissitudes of weather are alone required to secure a successful result. Captain Carr says that ** Ist. Care must be taken to provide them [the sheep] with airy and roomy stabling, so as to prevent them as much as possible from crowding together, which is very apt to induce a malignant state of the disease, even when at first disposed to assume a mild form. - «« 2d. It is absolutely necessary to keep them carefully guarded against cold, and especially against thorough draughts. « 3d. Although, during warm and dry weather, both of the above-mentioned evils are avoidable, by placing the sheep during the day-time in a dry, sheltered, and not too distant paddock ; still it raust be remembered, that exposure to rain, dew, or fog, would prove highly dangeroustothem. They must, therefore, be housed at night, and when housed, fed (an addition to good hay) with coarse meal, some of which ought also to be mixed with the water they get to drinkt.” To these instructions we will append those given for the management of the animals by Hurtrel D’Arboval, who likewise describes the ill consequences that occa- sionally arise from neglect. We prefer these quotations * Article Clavelization. 1 Sheep-pox, p. 12, 13