418 MANGE. 



been .tiade, half a pound of sulphur should be well mixed with a 

 pint of oil of tar, or, if thai is not to be obtained, a pint of Barba- 

 boes tar, and tlie ah'ected parts rubbed, as before. On every fiith 

 or sixth day, the ointmeni snould be washed off with warm soap 

 and water. The prop:ress towards cure will thus be ascertained, 

 and the skin will be cleansed, and its pores opened for the more 

 effectual application of the ointment. 



The horse should be well supplied with nourishing, but not 

 stimulating food. As much green feed as he will eat should be 

 given to him, or, what is far better, he should be turned out, ii 

 the weather is not too cold. It may be useful to add, that, alter 

 the horse has been once well dressed with either of these liniments, 

 the danger of contagion ceases. It is necessary, however, to be 

 assured that every mangy place has been anointed. It will be 

 prudent to give two or three dressings after the horse has been ap- 

 parently cured, and to continue the alteratives for ten days or a 

 fortnight. 



The cure being completed, the clothing of the horse should be 

 well soaked in water, to which a fortieth part of the saturated so- 

 lution of the chloride of lime has been a Ided ; after which i* 

 should be washed with soap and water, and again washed ana 

 soaked in a solution of the chloride of lime. Every part of the 

 harness should undergo a similar purification. The curry-comb 

 may be scoured but the brush should be burned. The rack and 

 manger, and partitions, and every part of the stable which the 

 horse could possibly have touched, should be well washed with a 

 hair-broom — a pint of the chloride of lime being added to three 

 gallons of water. All the wood-work should then be scoured with 

 soap and water, after which a second washing with the chloride 

 of lime will render all secure. 



Every case of itchiness of the skin should be regarded with sus- 

 picion. When a horse is seen to rub the root of his tail, or his 

 head, or neck, against the manger, the parts should be carefully 

 examined. Some of the hair m^ay have been rubbed or torn otf, 

 but if the roots remain firmly adherent, and there is only rediirss 

 and not scurfiness of the skin, it probably is not mange, but only 

 inflammation of the skin, from too great fulness of blood. A lit- 

 tle blood should be abstracted — a purgative administered — and 

 the alteratives given. The mange ointrnxcnt caimot do harm, and 

 may possibly prevent this heat of the skin from degenerating into 

 mange, or arrest the progress of mange if it has commenced. If 

 a scurfiness of the skin should appear on any of the points that 

 are pressed upon by the collar or harness, the veterinary surgeon 

 will do right to guard against danger by alterative medicine and 

 the use of the ointment. =^ 



* Note by Mr. Spooner. — "We have only tc» remark, that the adniiniatratioti 



