Diagnosis. Treatment. 871 



of the inflammation limited to, or at least beginning on, the 

 extremities facilitate the diagnosis. In the fattening barns of 

 potato distilleries the soealled dirt eczema and dermatophagns 

 scab are also seen freqnently, bnt dirt scab does not extend 

 above the fetlock joint and is not accompanied by general symp- 

 toms, while dermatophagns scab develops mncli more slowly 

 and corresponds in character to chronic eczema withont vesicles 

 and moistnre. The demonstration of scab mites in the crnsts 

 does not necessarily exclnde malt eczema, for the parasites may 

 also be fonnd on the skin in this disease; it is accordingly of 

 importance in all cases to make a diagnosis from the clinical 

 sjanptoms of the disease. Ulceration of the claws, intertrigo 

 between the claws, fnrther foot-and-month disease are limited 

 to the interdigital spaces or the edges of the coronet ; the large 

 vesicles present in foot-and-mouth disease will not easily be 

 mistaken for those of malt eczema. Panaritium (foot rot) may 

 indeed form a complication of distiller's slop eczema, but since 

 more distant portions of the skin are involved in eczema, it can 

 readily be differentiated from panaritium due to other causes. 



Treatment. The first step in treatment is the removal of 

 the cause by the suspension of malt feeding, by reducing the 

 daily rations of swill or potatoes down to the non-injurious 

 quantity, and by the addition of raw food or crushed grain, 

 bran or oil cake. The less potatoes or slop the animals receive 

 the more rapidly they recover, and only when all bad symptoms 

 have disappeared, the daily quantity of the previously injurious 

 food may again be gradually increased; yet it appears in- 

 advisable, at least at the fattening period, to feed the maximal 

 quantity. If dry food is not procurable in sufficient amount, 

 one can lessen the injurious effect of the malt by making a mash 

 of one-third of corn and two-thirds of potatoes (Marker), be- 

 sides the addition of chalk (50 to 100 giii. to 50 liters of swill) 

 or lime water (2 to 3 liters daily) is advantageous (Haubner & 

 Siedamgrotzky). The result of the treatment will be aided by 

 daily exercise of the animal in the open. Eggeling saw the 

 disease disappear from a herd after the distiller's waste was 

 kept heated by steam at 60°. Musterle saw the disease dis- 

 appear almost completely after the feed scalded with boiling 

 wash had been given to the animals at a temperature of not 

 less than 45° R.^ 



In the local treatment it is necessary to keep the animals 

 dry and to litter their stalls well with dry straw. Otherwise the 

 principles of treatment are the same as in eczema (see page 

 863). 



Literature. Baranski, O. Eev., 1886, 65. — Brautigam, Tnaug.-Diss., 1886 

 (Lit.)— Eggeling, Pr. Mt., 1881-82, .58.— Johiie, S. B., 1877, 148 (Lit.).— Marker, 

 Handb. d. Spiritusfabrikation, 1877.— Musterle, Munch, t. W., 1910, 189.— Ohlmann, 



