15W DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 



Alterative medicine will materially assist the cure. The following 

 may be given without injury to the milk, and without any precaution 

 being needed : — 



RECIPE (No. 55). 

 iterative Drink — Take flower of sulphur, two ounces; b)ack sulphuret of anti- 

 mony, one ounce ; .^thiop's mineral, half an ounce; nitre, two ounces. Mix, and 

 divide into four powders; give one every second morning in a little thick gruel. 

 Turning into a salt marsh will be an excellent auxiliary. 



Connected with mange, generally accompanying it, and often pro- 

 ducing it, are lice. The presence of these vermin argues extreme 

 negligence, and is an absolute disgrace to the farmer. They rapidly 

 spread from cow to cow ; the slightest touch transfers some of them 

 from one beast to another; they are crawling continually in the stable 

 or on the pasture; and although they are never originally bred in the 

 skin of a diseased animal, yet in one that has been half starved or 

 mangy, and whose coat clings to the skin, and will not come otf 

 when nature usually sheds it, these vermin find too favourable a 

 shelter. They are both the consequence and the cause of mange, 

 and other affections of the skin. Myriads of them are sometimes 

 found on the poor beast, teazing it almost to death. 



The mange ointment above recommended will often be eflfectual in 

 destroying them, or should it not be sufficiently powerful, a weaker 

 kind of mercurial ointment may be applied. 



RECIPE {No. 56). 

 Mercurial Ointment for Vermin. — Take strong mercurial ointment, ohp ounce ; 

 lard, seven ounces. Mix them well together, and rub the ointment well on wherever 

 the lice appear. 



Some prefer a lotion : the best is — 



RECIPE (No. 57). 

 Lotion for Vermin. — Take corrosive sublimate, two drachms; nib it down in two 

 ounces of spirit of wine, and add a pint of water. 



This is strong enough to kill the vermin, but cannot possibly injure 

 the beast. An ointment, however, is best, for it can be more tho- 

 roughly rubbed among the hair, and into every lurking-place which 

 the vermin may occupy. A portion of the liijuid is often lost in the 

 act of applying it. The ointment or the lotion should be used daily, 

 and three or four dressijogs will generally remove the nuisance. 



Scotch snuff has been dusted on the beast with partial good effect: 

 the animalculae have been thinned, but not extirpated. The snuff 

 cannot possibly reach half of them. 



While the lice are attacked, the condition of the animal should, 

 if possible, be improved. Poverty and bad condition are sad encou- 

 ragers of these pests. The alterative drink just recommended may 

 be advantageously combined with tonics. 



[The Boston Cultivator says:— " Many of our patrons inform us that their own 

 experience confirms our doctrine, as to the facility of destroying lice on cattle by 

 means of sand or any fine dust sifted into their hair. Mr. Hardy, of VValthara, 

 Massachusetts, one of our observing and successful farmers, says cattle that lie in 



