Vin CONTENTS. 



Mallenders and sallenders. Pustular eruptions. White face and foot disease, or 

 impetigo facialis. Neck mange, or impetigo colli. Impetigo larvalis, or 'break- 

 ing out ' on the mouths of young animals. Cracked heels. Grease. Impetigo 

 erysipelatodes. Ecthyma in man and animals. Herpetic, or bullous eruptions. 

 Herpes circinatus, or vesicular ringworm. Puruncular eruptions. Boil. Sty. 

 Carbuncle. Scorbutic eruption. Purpura. Purpura hsemorrhagica. Diseases 

 arising from special external causes. Mange, scab or itch. Scabies in all ani- 

 mals Its parasitic nature. Gerlach's researches. Description of the parasites. 

 Methods of discovering the parasites. Development of the disease. The treatment 

 of scabies Its prevention. Influence of mercury on sheep. Deaths amongst 

 flocks in Lincolnshire. Smearing, pouring, and dipping sheep. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE SKIN AND ITS AFFECTIONS. 



Vermin in the skin. ' The fly.' Maggots in sheep. Lice in animals. The common 

 flea; pulex irritans. Warbles or wornils. (Estrus bovinus. Bracy Clark on the 

 gad-fly. Origin of the word ' gad.' Metamorphoses of cestri. (Estrus bovis in the 

 human subject. Ticks. The dog-tick. The ox-tick. Hippoboscidse. Hippo- 

 bosca equina, or horse-fly. Melophagus ovinus ; sheep louse or tick. Poultry 

 lousiness in the horse. Phthiriasis equi. Descriptions of the disease by M. Bouley 

 and Mr Henderson. Simulum reptans. Chrysops ccecutiens. Argas Persicus. 

 Argas Americanus. Burns and scalds. Ambustio. Different kinds of burns and 

 scalds. Treatment. Effects of caustics. Frost-bites. Diseases arising from 

 special internal causes. Elephantiasis. Eruptive fevers. Typhus. Scarlatina. 

 Rubeola. Variola. Variolous fever in different animals. Cow-pox. Small-pox in 

 sheep. Varicella. Epizootic aphtha. 



CHAPTER XV. 



EPIZOOTIC AND ENZOOTIC DISEASES. 



Epizootic diseases. Their definition and enumeration. The steppe disease, or contagi- 

 ous typhoid fever Its symptoms, nature, and prevention. Epizootic aphtha 

 Its history on the Continent and in the United Kingdom Its general symptoms. 

 Special symptoms amongst cattle, sheep, and pigs. Its communication to the 

 human subject. Its treatment and prevention. Enzootic diseases Their defini- 

 tion and general causes. Anthrax, or carbuncular fevers. General remarks. 

 The occurrence of such fevers in the United Kingdom. Different forms of anthrax. 

 Carbuncular fever, without local complications. Carbuncular fevers, with 

 erysipelatous complications. Forms of anthrax, with the development of boils and 

 carbuncles. Splenic apoplexy. Braxy in sheep. Black-leg. Glossanthrax. 

 Anthrax in the pig. The hog cholera. Parturient fever, or dropping after calving. 

 After pains, heaving pains, or ' inflammation ' in ewes. 



