244 MANGE, OR ITCH. 



cent, of inoculated animals will die During the 

 disease they should not be kept too warm or be over- 

 fed. 



Mange, or Itch. 



Is quite common in sheep, and assumes a variety of 

 forms. It is especially liable to occur in long-con- 

 tinued rainy, damp weather, and when blocks are 

 long exposed and unsheltered. Small pimples and 

 then vesicles start up, secreting a viscid, glutinous 

 fluid ; and in many cases these vesicles run into 

 corroding ulcers, which extend more and more, 

 attended with violent itching and burning. 



TREATMENT. The infected sheep should be 

 separated from the flock, and be placed in a dry, 

 sheltered abode, and given good food and careful 

 attendance, and each day give to e ch unsound or 

 suspected one, two drops of the ERUPTION SPECIFIC 

 I I. This remedy will generally suffice. II they have 

 been long diseased, it is best to shear them at once. 

 In obstinate cases Dr. Gunther's Balsamus Tercbin- 

 t /lines Sulphuratus has been applied with great suc- 

 cess. It may be prepared by any one in the follow- 

 ing manner : Dissolve one part, by weight, of sul- 

 phur in four parts of linseed oil, by boiling them 

 together over a fire. The result of this will be a 

 black-brown elastic oil, of which mix one part, by 

 weight, with three parts of turpentine, by exposing 

 the two to a gentle heat, and the result is the pre- 

 paration in question, of which give the diseased 

 animals two drops each day, and they will soon be 

 well. 



