-460 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



A. recent author recommends the following: 



Hog's laril, ....... half a pound, 



Oil of vitriol, ...... 1 ounce. 



Gradually adding the oil of vitriol to the lard. 



Internal remedies, such as sulphur and gentle laxatives, are 

 occasionally requisite ; the most particular attention must be paid 

 to cleanliness, exercise, and diet. In cases where the animals 

 that have caught the disease are very full of blood, it will be 

 necessary to bleed and give cooling physic, before the ointment 

 be applied. Th skin should always be thoroughly washed with 

 soap and water, both before and after the application of the 

 ointment, and the animals should be confined till they are per- 

 fectly free from the disease. 



The following observations, extracted from the "Edinburgh 

 Medical and Surgical Journal," are inserted as tending to show 

 the injurious effects resulting from an improper treatment of the 

 mange : 



''For the msnge in five cows of Mr. Hatchett, a man, vul- 

 garly called a beast-leech, or cow doctor, applied a preparation 

 containing tobacco and corrosive sublimate. In the course of 

 one hour and a quarter they all died, preceded by convulsions. 

 The facts were proved, on an action against this doctor, to the 

 satisfaction of the jury, who awarded the damages. An experi- 

 ment has been subsequently made by an intelligent medical prac- 

 titioner, on the diseases of dogs, in which six grains of shag 

 tobacco, infused in about one drachm of water, being applied to 

 the skin of a dog, presently killed the animal. It is, however, 

 well known that dogs are very commonly washed with tobacco 

 water for the mange, without poisoning them ; but I have known 

 it occasion long continued nausea, vomiting, purging, and dis- 

 charge of urine. Probably, however, it requires a concentrated 

 solution of tobacco to prove destructive to life. The same 

 observation is made on the effects of corrosive sublimate and 

 tobacco, in the case of Mr. Hatchett's cows. Probably, too, 

 these applications may occasionally have produced death, but 

 the cases were unnoticed. It is also questionable, whether the 

 tobacco or corrosive sublimate poisoned the cows, or the two 

 conjointly. Tobacco does not kill horses, for it is very com- 

 monly eaten with corn, to increase the appetite; nor do very 

 large dosea of corrosive sublimate, taken internally, poison 

 them." 



