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SCABIES— SCAB — MANGE. 



have played the most important rfdes in the eradication of scab from 

 certain EngHsh colonies, and their use is extensive in America. 



The Tohacco-and-SuJphur Dip. 



The formula as given here, and as adopted by the New South 

 Wales sanitary authorities, appears to have first been proposed in 



Fiu. 257. — A slightly advanced case of common scab. 



1854 by Mr. John Rutherford. "On the Hopkins Hill Station Mr. 

 Rutherford, with two dressings of these ingredients, then cured over 

 52,000 sheep which had been infected for eighteen months. Since 

 then millions of scabby sheep have been permanently cured in Victoria 

 in the same way, and in South Australia and New South AVales 

 hundreds of thousands of scabby sheep have also been cleansed with 

 tobacco and sulphur. Judging, therefore, from the experience of the 

 three colonies, there is no medicament or specific yet known that 

 can be compared with tobacco and sulphur as a thorough and lasting 



