DISEASES 109 



brush, wet with liquid, brush dog thoroughly; remove dog from tub, give 

 him a bed of clean straw to roll in, do not rinse off with clean water or 

 rub skin dry. Do not allow dog to roll in dirt immediately after his 

 wash, as he will if not chained up or placed in a room. Rolling in sand 

 after a wash will irritate the sores and make the cure all the harder. When 

 about dry. the sore spots may be touched up with equal parts of water 

 and Standard Oil of Tar. In curing mange, the bedding must be changed 

 every day, wash all woodwork where dog rubs, once every week with hot 

 waicr in which has been placed Standard Oil of Tar." 



There is no use in taking medicine unless you follow your doctor's 

 advice, so don't expect the desired result unless you follow directions, as 

 one or two applications will not effect a cure in a case Of mange. Mange 

 can be cured, no matter how bad a case it appears to be, if you go at it 

 right and have the right remedy, in fact, it is one of the easiest to cure of 

 all troubles. The reason why so many people dread this disease is be- 

 cause of their failure to cure what they wrongly suppose is mange, when 

 it perhaps is eczema, which is a much longer story, but can also be cured 

 and the treatment of which is given under that heading. Remember, that* 

 if you have more than one dog, the others will get it unless the afflicted 

 one is removed and isolateu in time. The advantage of having a regular 

 kennel or place for each dog to sleep is manifest in treating the dog for 

 mange, as thus you can disinfect his kennel and destroy the bedding, which 

 are both infected, whereas, if your dog was sleeping any place he wanted 

 to in your house, this would be a very difficult matter, and while you cured 

 him he could again contract it by coming in contact with the parasites that 

 had not been destroyed. 



You need not have any fear of con i racting mange from your dog; 

 I have treated many cases for years past and never got it — not transmit- 

 able from the dog to man. 



There are several skin diseases called by different names, or desig- 

 nated as different kinds of mange, but the treatment I have given for 

 mange, and the one for eczema, about covers the whole ground of skin 

 trouble, or, my remedy will cure them all, excepting that in some of them, as 

 in eczema, internal remedies must also be used at the same time to work 

 on the blood. Eczema is fully treated elsewhere. Carbolic acid is used 

 in many mange cures, a dangerous ingredient unless carefully used and 

 in small quantities. 



My long-time friend, Harry \Y. Lacy, editor of American Fancier and 

 Stock-keeper, has this to say of mange read it also: 



"It is quite true that eczema or red mange is to some extent con- 

 tagious, but we have not found it to be so to any extent which would justify 

 the term being applied to it. It is desirable, always to keep a dog affected 

 with skin disease away from other dogs, because constant contact in the 

 kennel or at play is liable to give rise to an exchange of skin complaint. 

 On the other hand, a dog with distemper, which is very contagious, is made 

 to give it to animals which never come mar to him, and a dog with 

 fleas will furnish a supply to ail his fellows in the neighborhood. In most 

 cases mange is, however, not due to contact by the victim with another 

 mangy cur, but is due to out-and-out neglect. Mange is never known in 

 kennels where the dogs are properly looked after; it is a cultivation of the 



