334 DISEASES OF DOGS : THE MANGE. 



The following will also be found an excellent 

 ball for worms ; we frequently make up a great 

 number of these for sportsmen, 



(RECIPE, No. 29.) 

 Worm Ball. 



Take — Calomel, five to eight grains ; 



Barbadoes aloes, half a drachm ; 

 Ginger, in powder, ten grains ; 

 Oil of wormwood, four drops : 

 Make into a ball with conserve, or syrup of 

 buckthorn, and give one every fourth day, 

 for three or four times. ^ 



CHAP. XII. 



MANGE. 



We now come to treat of that well known cu- 

 taneous disease the mange. There are two kinds 

 to which dogs are commonly liable ; one which is 

 called simply the maiige; and there is the red 

 ma7iige, named so from the red colour of the skin. 

 There is another cutaneous disease that dogs are 

 subject to, called surfeit ; this bears some re- 

 semblance to the mange, and yields pretty nearly 

 to the same remedies. I shall therefore speak of 

 it in this chapter. 



