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should impress itself when treatment is undertaken. When satisfied a 

 dog has the disease under consideration, he should at once he removed 

 from his kennel, his bedding burned, and hot lime impregnated with car- 

 bolic acid be plentifully used in every part, crack, and crevice of the 

 building. This precautionary treatment should be renewed at intervals 

 of every few days until the animal has recovered. 



Remedies without number have been recommended for the cure of sar- 

 coptic mange; those are the best which not only destroy the insects and 

 their eggs and cause the secondary eruptions to disappear, but as well cure 

 the eczema which the scratching of the animal has induced. Sulphur in 

 some form is the sovereign remedy, united with other agents as the con- 

 ditions indicate. 



In commencing treatment it is well to thoroughly wash the entire body 

 in strong soap suds, rinsing carefully in luke warm water. The following 

 ointment should then be used freely, covering both the affected and unaf- 

 fected parts.— 



R Potass. Carbonatis gi 

 Sulphur Flor. § iij 



Glycerinae 5 vi 



Ft. Mist. Sig. External. 



This preparation will immediately destroy the acari. 



The balsam peru is another active agent in this disease, and may be used 

 with the sulphur as follows. — 



R Sulphur Flor. 



Bals. Peru aa § s s 



Adepis § ij 



Ft. Ungt Sig. External. 



This ointment should be applied three times a day for a week and then 

 washed off. 



Liquid storax and lard one part to two, is a favorite mixture with some. 

 Naphthol is a very active agent and is commonly combined as follows.— 



R Naphtholis ? ss 



Sapo. Viridis 5 ij 



Adepis § viij 



Ft. Ungt. Sig. External. 

 The entire body of the dog should be freely rubbed with this ointment 

 once daily for two or three days, and then thoroughly washed. 



In some breeds of dogs the skin is easily irritated ; for them, and for 

 house pets on which the use of ointments would be especially unpleasant 

 to their owners, a solution may be made as follows : — flowers of sulphur 



