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Cowhage, - - - half a drachm. 



Common salt, - - 1 drachm. 

 Tin filings, produced by a 



very thin file, - 2 drachms. 



If the salt prove an emetic, it must be omitted. 

 6. The Mange. 



This disease is of four kinds ; the red, the com- 

 mon, the spungy, and the surfeit : The red mange is 

 more difiicult to cure than the common, but is less 

 infectious. A bitch lined by a mangy dog is A^ery 

 liable to produce mangy puppies, and the progeny 

 of a mangy bitch is certain to become affected some- 

 time or other. The morbid constitutional action by 

 which mange is generated is excited by various 

 causes, and in different ways. If a number of dogs 

 be confined together, the acrid effluvia of their 

 transpiration, &c. may beget a virulent mange, very 

 difficult to be removed. If a dog be fed on salt 

 provisions, it will become subject to the disorder, 

 and full feeding, as well as poor living, will be a 

 certain cause of it. 



The red mange is known by the red inflammatory 

 colour of the skin ; the whole skin of the body, par- 

 ticularly in white haired dogs, is in a state of active 

 inflammation ; it is hot to the feel, and itches into- 

 lerably. In this kind of mange, the hair is often 

 specifically affected, and becomes altered in its co- 

 lour, particularly about the e?:tremities : it also falls 

 off, and leaves the body almost bare. The strong 

 coarse kind, called iiire-liab\ is peculiarly liable to 

 suffer this discolom'ation. 



The following are deemed the best cures for the 

 red mange : 



