48 MANGE OB ITCH. 



Hidebound. 



This condition is not a disease of itself, but a mere 

 symptom of some other disease, most frequently of 

 the stomach; such as a disordered stomach; poor 

 food, or long exposure to rough stormy weather. It 

 not unfrequently exists in connection wLh Glanders, 

 Grease, Founder or old disease of the lungs. 



SYMPTOMS. It manifests itself by the hair looking 

 rough and unthrifty, without its natural smoothness 

 and gloss ; and the skin feels hard, firm, and fixed to 

 the flesh. 



We can most successfully treat it by ascertaining 

 and removing the cause upon which it depends. But 

 in the absence of any special indication, we may give 

 with the best success a dose of fifteen drops of the 

 Specific for INDIGESTION, J J, each morning, and 

 the same of the Specific for ERUPTIONS, I I, each 

 night. A few days treatment will generally produce 

 a most marked improvement. 



Mange, or Itch. 



This disease, which occurs in all domestic animals, 

 especially the horse, sheep, and dog, much resembles 

 and is probably the same as the itch in the human 

 subject. It may be dry and pimpled, or vesicular 

 and moist. It first appears on the neck at the roots 

 of the mane, thence to the back, loins, neck, buttocks, 

 shoulders, thighs, etc. , and consists of small pimples 

 itching violently, and causing the animal to scratch 

 and rub itself incessantly, thus soon denuding the 



