These are best given in a liquid form, and should be carefully and slowly administered. Sheep generally require one sixth (or from one eighth to one sixth) of the doses given to cattle.

Purging Drenches

1. Epsom salts 2 oz., powdered caraway 1/4 oz., warm thin gruel sufficient to dissolve the salts. The editor of Clater says that this is the best purging drink that can be used. For Lambs give a fourth of this, and repeat in 6 hours if necessary.

2. Epsom salts 1 1/2 oz. or 2 oz., ginger 1 dr., treacle 1 oz., hot water 4 oz.

3. Castor oil 2 oz., ginger and salt of tartar, of each 2 scruples, moist sugar a spoonful, gruel q. s. - M'Ewen.

4. Epsom or Glauber's salts from 1 to 2 oz., common salt a teaspoonful, boiling water sufficient to dissolve the salts, and a little gruel. A teaspoonful of tincture of ginger or of pimento, or of anodyne carminative tincture (see Miscellaneous liquid Medicines, Vet. Formulary, further back), may be added.

5. Sulphur 1/4 oz., Epsom salts 1 oz., common salt a teaspoonful, thin gruel 1/4 pint.

6. Linseed oil 2 or 3 oz., croton oil 2 or 3 drops, warm gruel q. s.

7. For Lambs. Epsom salts 2 to 4 drs., ginger 1/2 dr., in gruel. - Spooner.

8. For Sheep on the first attack of Smallpox. Epsom salts 2 oz., ginger 1/2 dr., in chamomile tea or infusion of gentian (or with 1 dr. of powdered gentian or chamomile). - Warnecke.

Fever Drench

Powdered digitalis 20 grs., emetic tartar 10 grs., nitre 2 drs. Twice a day, mixed with gruel. - Clater.

Tonic Drenches

1. General Tonic. Gentian 2 drs., calumba 1 dr., ginger 1/2 dr., all in powder; tincture of orange peel 1 dr., gruel 4 oz.; for one dose. - Clater.

2. In the last stage of Fever. Gentian 1 dr., ginger 20 grs., spirit of nitrous ether 1 dr., tincture of cardamom 20 drops, in gruel.

3. For Debility and Indigestion, after a purgative. Gentian, caraway, each 1 oz., calumba and ginger, of each 1/2 oz. (all sliced or bruised), boiling water a quart; infuse till cool, and strain. Give a tablespoonful daily, with the same quantity of gruel. - Clater.

Drenches For Red-Water

The pasture should be changed for shorter, the animal bled, and the bowels kept open with the above purging drinks. If these means do not remove the disease, give one of the following drenches: -

1. Epsom salts 6 oz., nitre 2 oz., bole 1/2 oz., hot water 3 pints, oil of turpentine 4 oz.; mix, and give 3 or 4 tablespoonfuls (from a horn that will measure that quantity), shaking the bottle well before each dose is poured out.

2. Powdered catechu 30 grs., alum 20 grs., ginger 20 grs., decoction of oak-bark 4 oz., for a dose.

3. Olive oil 1 oz., oil of turpentine 1 oz., thick gruel 1/4 pint.

*** Mr. Finlay Dun condemns bloodletting in Red-water.

For External Red-Water

(Vesicles on the skin, containing a reddish fluid.)

1. Sulphur 2 to 3 drs., in gruel, once or twice a day. If it continue, give -

2. Epsom salts 1 oz., gruel sufficient to dissolve it. - Sir James Mackenzie.