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MANGE continued. 



Thoroughly cleanse, wash, and disinfect with carbolic, or corrosive sub- 

 limate solution, clothing, harness, stable fittings, rubbing-posts, etc. 



Clip, collect, and burn hair. 



Crusts softened and removed by soap and water, pot. carbonate, with 

 oil, vaseline, or glycerin and water. 



Psoroptes and Chorioptes are destroyed without much skin irritation or 

 risk of poisoning by stavesacre ointment or solution, sulphur iodide 

 ointment, or creolin solution, applied daily for a week. 



Tar oil one part, palm oil six parts, laid on thickly and allowed to 

 remain undisturbed for four or five days. 



Wood tar and sublimed sulphur each one part, soft soap and alcohol 

 each two parts ; creolin solution, 3 per cent. 



The dressing used must be thoroughly rubbed in, and when washed off 

 should within a week be reapplied. 



To kill the burrowing Sarcoptes the parts affected are lathered with soap 

 and water, soaked for some hours with solution of pot. carbonate 

 sulphur and oil, and the parasiticide rubbed in with a brush. To 

 destroy subsequent hatchings a second, and in bad cases a third 

 dressing may be needed, at an interval of a week. 



Oil of cade and coal tar, each one part, mixed in a mortar, and three 

 parts benzine added, commended by Trasbot. 



In some cases dressing only one half of the skin at a time is advisable. 



Persistent spots over limited area dressed with mercurial ointment. 



Change dressings repeatedly. 



For ears of dogs and cats naphthol ten parts, ether thirty, olive oil 100, 

 or warm solution of cyllin, 2 per cent. 



For poultry dust skin thoroughly with pyrethrum or other insect 

 powder (Cagny). 



Treatment in sheep specially noticed under SCAB. 



MANGE, FOLLICULAR. 



Caused by the Demodex folliculorum. Inhabits the hair follicles, 

 sebaceous glands and their tubes, usually about the head and 

 extremities ; produces erythema of adjacent skin, atrophy of hair 

 roots, muco-purulent discharge, formation of small abscesses ; often 

 assumes a squamous type. Occurs in dogs, cats, and occasionally 

 in pigs. 



Separate patient from other animals. 

 Treatment uncertain and tedious ; nature of remedy probably of less 



importance than its thorough application. 

 Shave the parts affected ; lather with terebene soap, and rub in daily 



for several weeks balsam of Peru (Siedamgrotzky). 



Creosote one part, caustic pot. solution two, olive oil fourteen (Hunting). 

 Daily rubbing with ointment of cyllin (5) and lanoline (100 parts). 

 Creosote or oil of cade and caustic pot. are rendered more penetrating 



by addition of chloroform. 

 Solutions of benzine, naphthol, or zinc chloride 1\ per cent. , or sulphur 



iodide ointment. 

 Creolin and ichthyol are said to be effective if the dog is placed in a bath, 



containing 2 to 3 per cent, of either remedy, for a quarter of an hour 



daily for two months (Friedberger). 

 Mild cases may be cured by shaving and washing the affected skin, 



squeezing and scraping the pustules, and touching each spot with 



undiluted iodine tincture. 

 Daily intradermic injection of one per cent, phenol into and around the 



lesions, commended by Mollereau. 

 Subcutaneous injections of vaccine prepared from the staphylococcus 



pyogenes albus successfully tried by Mettam. 

 Scrub thoroughly every affected spot with forty grains pot. sulphide in 



a pint of water, dress limited parts of the legs or body with cantha- 



