892 Comedo. Funinculosis. 



the internal employment of Fowler's solution. On the other hand the adminis- 

 tration of sulphur, ichthyol, resorcin, and salicylic acid preparations always resulted 

 in the abundant occurrence of fresh nodules. 



Ill the soealled sweating eczema of the saddle region, the following 

 remedies have been applied: Priesnitz's compresses vrith. creolin or 

 Burow's solution and subsecinent inunctions of vaseline, lead or boracic 

 ointment (Grammlich), sponging ^\^th corrosive sublimate or creosote 

 solution (hydrarg. biehlor. corros. 2 parts; creosote 5 parts; glycerine 

 and alcohol of each 100 parts [Mauke] ), finally the application of a lini- 

 ment consisting of 100 parts of alcohol and two parts each of bacillol, 

 soft soap and Peruvian balsam (Wilde). In recent times the disease 

 has been treated successfully by cleansing the parts with softening dis- 

 infecting solutions and using drying and protecting sul)stances on the 

 diseased places. Kurze produced the best results by fomentations with 

 warm infusion of hay seeds. 



As a prophylactic measure it is well to pad the harness or 

 muzzle and always to keep them clean. Against the occurrence 

 of soealled saddle scab, Kupfer uses oilcloth or Victoria-Battist 

 behind the edge of the panel and flap. 



Literature. Bartke, D. t. W., 1897, 214.— Frick, ibi.l., 1898, 365.— Friihner, 

 Monh., 1890, XI, 410; 1903, XIV, 461.— Grabenteich, Z. f. Yk., 1907, 323.— Gramm- 

 lich, ibid., 1899, 262.— V. Hennings, ibid., 1900, 75.— Kalkoff, ibid., 1901, 140.— 

 Kupfer, ibid., 1905, 27.— Mauke, S. B., 1906, 186.— Mrowka, Z. f. Yk., 1905, 49.3.— 

 Miiller, Yortr. f. Tierarzte, 1890, 2, H. 16.— Schindelka, Hautkrkh., 1909, 359.— 

 Steflfens, Z. f. Yk., 1896, 163. 



Comedo. (Grubs in the skin, acne punctata.) Comedos are cylin- 

 drical plugs secreted in the sebaceous glands, which often appear colored 

 black at their outer end and may be pressed out as whitish or yellowish 

 worm-shaped bodies. According to Schindelka, they occur quite fre- 

 quently in domesticated animals, but are most frequent in r'ogs and 

 swine on the hairless or sparsely haired parts of the body. '^I'he plugs 

 are expelled in time or inflammation or suppuration of the sebaceous 

 gland (acne) may occur. 



Funinculosis. Furuncle arises through the extension of acne in- 

 flammation from the walls of the sebaceous glands to the neighboring 

 tissue with subsequent death of the hair bulb and the immediately 

 adjoining tissue. The tendency to frequent affection with multiple 

 furuncles, which is occasionally met with, especially in dogs, is desig- 

 nated as furunculosis. 



The symptoms of furuncle are similar to those of acne, except that 

 the inflammatory focus is much larger, the pain more intense; in the 

 surrounding tissue an inflammatory edema is present, the neighboring 

 lymph glands are often enlarged, and within the focus one finds the 

 dead piece of tissue in the center of the pus. In these cases general 

 septic or pyemic infection may follow (Frick). The persistence of the 

 disease in dogs through the formation of abscesses and ulcers requires 

 operative measures, which consist in timely splitting of the abscesses 

 and removal of the pus together with the necrotic tissue (Frohner, Monh., 

 1890,1,410). 



A furunculosis-like disease of sheep was noted in the year 1905 by Teetz in 

 Germany in two flocks of ewes and lambs. With general symptoms of weakness 

 there was intense swelling of the lips and the skin of the angle of the jaw down 



