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head laid flat on one side. Or, a little oil of almonds poured into the caviy is 

 good. Either should be kept up daily until the wax is softened. Another 

 good thing is one part spirits of wine to twenty parts of lukewarm water. 

 Dry afterward with cotton-wool rolled around a probe or piece of pointed 



stick. 



Enteritis — (See Bowels, Inflammation of.) 



Erythema. — A superficial inflammation of the skin. Dogs occasionally 

 have it; not often a serious matter, though at times quite obstinate. The 

 skin peels, leaving the part tender and sore. The mouth is often the seat 

 of the disease, and the skin finally becomes wrinkled. Administer a purga- 

 tive and bathe the parts with a saturated solution of boracic acid lotion 

 (non-poisonous). 



Eczema. — This is not contagious, and in this respect, differs from 

 mange, which is. It is a constitutional trouble and no external application 

 alone will ever cure it, and you simpy waste time and medicine giving ex- 

 ternal treatment alone,, for to insure a cure of this disease, internal and 

 external treatment both are required. Neither must you expect to cure 

 it up in a short time, which you ran do in mange, for eczema requires time 

 and patience on your part — and the proper treatment. The blood must he 

 purified, and you know that if you yourself were "taking a spring medicine 

 for a general cleaning out and getting your blood in the right condition 

 you would not expect to do it on one single bottle of Dr. Somebody's Sarsa- 

 parilla. Eczema requires a proper course of medicine, but can be cured. In 

 this disease. the hair sacks or follicles are the "principal seat of the dis3ase, 

 becoming inflamed, and if the animal is a white one the hair assumes a. 

 rusty or reddish color at the roots. The inside of the thighs, back of the 

 forelegs, Hie elbows and belly art the parts first affected. Prompt means 

 must be taken at this tinr? to check it up or inflammation increases rapidly, 

 and the entire skin and subcutaneous tissues will be involved, the hair 

 drops out from the affected follicle, purulent matter exudes and pustules 

 form, which break open, the matter from them running together and form- 

 ing scabs, which crack open and bleed, and the animal has become a pitiful 

 and loathsome object, emitting a very disagreeable odor. 



In my forty years' experience in handling dogs I have found at least 

 fifty cases of eczema to one of mange. Any skin trouble appearing on a 

 dog the first conclusion of so many is that it is mange, and here is where 

 the mistake often comes in. Eczema is curable in a dog the same as in 

 a human, but patience and regular, persistent treatment must be expected 

 to be given the patient. 



' In every article on eczema given herein Eberhart's Skin Cure will do 

 the work externally, and nothing more certain to use for the external part 

 of the treatment, in lieu of any others advised in either of the articles. It 

 is also safe and non-poisonous. 



It will require a month or even two or three months' treatment to effect 

 a cure in eczema, but if you follow treatment, and keep it up faithfully, you 



