Whenever the scab makes its appearance, the whole flock should be examined, and every one having the least abrasion eruption of the skin should be put under medical treatment. In most cases, itch is the result of infection. A single sheep infected with it is sufficient to infect a whole flock. If a few applications of the pyroligneous wash, aided by the medicine, are not sufficient to remove the malady, then recourse must be had to the following:-- Fir balsam, half a pint. Sulphur, 1 ounce. Mix. Anoint the sores daily. The only additional treatment necessary in erysipelas is, to give a bountiful supply of tea made of lemon balm, sweetened with honey. FOOTNOTE: [17] More likely the remedies. They are tobacco and corrosive sublimate--destructive poisons. DIARRHOEA. This is not always to be considered as a disease, but in many cases it proves salutary operation of nature; therefore it should not be too suddenly checked. We commence the treatment by feeding on boiled meal. We then give mucilaginous drink made from marshmallows, slippery elm, or poplar bark. If, at the end of two days, symptoms of amendment have not made their appearance, the following draught must be given:-- Make a strong infusion of raspberry leaves, to a pint of which add a tea-spoonful of tincture of capsicum, (hot drops,) and one of charcoal. To be repeated every morning, until healthy action is established. DYSENTERY. This malady may be treated in the same manner as diarrhoea. Should blood and slime be voided in large quantities, the excrement emit a fetid odor, and the animal waste rapidly, then, in addition to the mucilaginous drink, administer the following:-- Powdered charcoal, 1 tea-spoonful. " golden seal, half a tea-spoonful. To be given, in hardhack tea, as occasion may require. A small quantity of charcoal, given three times a day, with boiled food, will frequently cure the disease, alone. Dysentery is sometimes mistaken for diarrhoea; but they may be distinguished by the following characteristics:-- 1st. Diarrhoea most frequently attacks weak animals; whereas dysentery ofttimes attacks animals in good condition. 2d. Dysentery generally attacks sheep in the hot months; on the other hand, diarrhoea terminates at the commencement of the hot season. 3d. In diarrhoea, there are scarcely any feverish symptoms, and no straining before evacuation, as in dysentery. 4th. In diarrhoea, the excrement is loose, but in other respects natural, without any blood or slime; whereas in dysentery the fæces consist of hard lumps, blood, and slime. 5th. There is not that degree of fetor in the fæces, in diarrhoea, which takes place in dysentery. 6th. In dysentery, the appetite is totally gone; in diarrhoea, it is generally better than usual. 7th. Diarrhoea is not contagious; dysentery is supposed to be highly so.