Chronic Moist Eczema at the Mane and Tail. 477 



Symptoms. Following strangles the papules or vesicular eruption 

 may have passed leaving the skin thick, rigid, dry and scurfy. 

 The pigment may be increased and the hairs are usually shed in 

 collection with atrophy of their follicles and rubbing of the 

 itching surface, so that the cuticle is smooth, glabrous and even 

 glistening. In implication of the lachrymal apparatus, there is 

 shedding of hairs beneath the eye or the wet matted condition of 

 those that remain. 



Treatment. In .strangles use a lotion of silver nitrate or sodium 

 hyposulphite to destroy the local infection. In other cases treat 

 as for ordinary eczema. 



CHRONIC MOIST ECZEMA (IMPETIGO) AT THE MANE 



AND TAIL. 



Fleshy neck, thick mane and tail, lymphatic constitution, profuse per- 

 .spiration, lack of cleanliness, alkaline soaps, plethora, foul .stable, pus mi- 

 crobes. vSymptoms : itching or tenderness, shedding hair, thinning of 

 mane and tail, skin thickened, ridges and folds, tenderness, moisture, 

 crusts raise hairs from follicles, foetor, .sores and ulcers, matted hairs. 

 Treatment : remove general and local causes, cleanse, cool, pure stable, 

 clip, reduce grain ; cooling, laxative food, soothing or stimiilating applica- 

 tions, zinc oxide, talc, olive oil and diachylon plaster, iodoform, silver ni- 

 trate, oil of cade, or of white birch, siilphnr iodide. Canada baksam and sul- 

 phur, green soap, dusting powders, ointments. 



This condition is especially common in liorses with a profusion 

 of long hairs in the mane and tail, and in the heavy draught ani- 

 mal with a thick, fleshy neck. In such tlie skin is very sensitive, 

 and when profuse perspiration soaks the skin, or concretes and 

 decompo.ses about the roots of the hairs, the local irritation 

 necessar}' to the production of th.e eruption is present. A lack 

 of careful grooming is therefore a common cause, yet soap left 

 in washing the mane or tail may i)e no less injurious. Plethora 

 has its influence in many cases, and the ammoniacal fumes from 

 a wooden stable saturated with excretions are not to be ignored. 

 Finally in ca.ses accompanied by pustular eruption, the pus 

 microbes mu.st be recognized as factors. 



Symptoms. There ma}' be marked itching or extreme tender- 

 ness of the part affected or in the absence of both there may 



