In scours, the surface evaporates too little of the moisture, and should
be relaxed by diffusible stimulants in the form of ginger tea. The
treatment that we have found the most successful is as follows: take
four ounces raw linseed oil, two ounces of lime water; mix. Let this
quantity be given to a sheep on the first appearance of the above
disease; half the quantity will suffice for a lamb. Give about a
wine-glass full of ginger tea at intervals of four hours, or mix a small
quantity of ginger in the food. Let the animal be fed on gruel, or
mashes of ground meal. If the above treatment fails to arrest the
disease, add half a tea-spoonful of powdered bayberry bark. If the
extremities are cold, rub them with the tincture of capsicum.