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VALUE OF CLOTHING AND CLEANLINESS. 



different baths used for medicinal purposes, or merely for the 

 purification of the skin : 



TEMPEEATUKE OF SIMPLE BATHS. 



Simple baths are most used in dog practice. Vapour 

 baths have very justly had strong advocates amongst those 

 who have treated the diseases of the horse. The above scale 

 of temperatures is that used for man, and is adhered to for. 

 animals. 



DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND HAIRS. 



In this country the skin diseases of the lower animals 

 have been all included under a general head mange and 

 in the most elaborate work on the diseases of the horse, the 

 maladies referred to are surfeit, urticaria, greasiness of skin, 

 saddle scald, ringworm, grub of the skin, mange, hidebound, 

 lousiness, warts, grease, and cracked heels. With the know- 

 ledge at present possessed of the many varieties of skin 

 disease in man and animals, the very names, apart the num- 

 ber, of the morbid conditions of the skin thus alluded to, 

 appears ludicrous. 



Some of the best continental authors describe no less 

 than fifty skin diseases, and many of these appear to occur 

 in a variety of forms, so that a rigid classification would 

 perhaps necessitate the recognition of a still larger number 

 of skin affections. It is my desire to simplify, and not to 



