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arts. In the dry variety, the parts seem covered 

 with a whitish dust, and the eruption constantly 

 spreads more and more. The moist variety, consists 

 of pimples, changing at times to pustules, which 

 break and discharge a fluid, forming crusts or scabs, 

 which peel off, leaving bare and sore spots. This 

 process extends by degrees, and is attended with in- 

 tolerable itching and irritation, until the entire system 

 is more or less involved . 



The animal grows thin in spite of good appetite, 

 and unless cured, mange may continue for years, ter- 

 minating fatally in some form of disease, such as 

 dropsy, consumption, etc, 



Old, badly-kept horses, and emaciated cows are es- 

 pecially liable to it. Sheep have it in a variety of 

 forms. Among hogs it is quite common and most 

 readily cured, while it is most obstinate in the case of 

 dogs v 



It is a decidedly infectious disease, and among 

 horses is generally the result of infection, being com- 

 municated by the curry comb, brush, blanket, or by 

 rubbing the same stall with an infected animal. 



It may also arise spontaneously from spoiled or 

 scanty food, or from damp stables, bad keeping, and 

 poor attendance. 



TREATMENT. The horse should be so kept as not 

 to communicate his disease to others, and be most 

 carefully groomed and attended with a suitable al- 

 lowance of good diet, and morning and night give 

 fifteen drops of the Specific, I, I, for MANGE. Pro- 

 cure also one or two pounds of good flour of Sulphur, 



