42 CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF 



examination, to clip the horse, as being a good practice in many cases, 

 especially in summer; wash the parts well, and then use the acid. 

 You must be careful in using carbolic acid, especially on dogs, for it 

 becomes absorbed, and kills by poisoning. Mercurial ointment, used 

 with caution, is good. Equal parts of oil of tar, sulphur and linseed 

 oil is also recommended, but makes the animal very dirty. Iodide of 

 sulphur, rubbed upon the parts, is another. Every practitioner has 

 his favourite remedies. Creosote one part to thirty parts of oil ; or, 

 wood tar half pound, soft soap one pound, dissolved in warm water. 

 If you try one, and it does not do, then try some other. In bad cases, 

 change remedies every few days. Give easily digested and nutritive 

 food, and if the animal is in poor condition, give arsenic two grains, 

 sulphate of iron two drachms. Keep the pores of the skin in proper 

 condition, which hastens the destruction of the parasites. Thoroughly 

 cleanse the harness, clothes, saddles, etc., and use carbolic acid upon 

 them. 



Man^e in Cattle. — The symptoms are just the same as in the horse' 

 Dermatodectes is the kind generally found in cattle. You can apply 

 stronger and dirtier remedies in cattle than in horses. Sulphuret of 

 potassium, one ounce to ten ounces of water, once or twice a day, or 

 oil of tar, turpentine and train oil, but it will make the animal very 

 dirty. It will never do to cover any great surface of the skin with 

 mercurial ointment at one time, for it would be absorbed, but use it 

 on one part of the body one day and another part the next. 



Scab in Slieep. — Is a very serious affection in some countries, 

 but not in Canada or the United States. The usual parasites are 

 dermatodectes. 



Syviptonis are very well marked. Extreme itchiness ; the animals 

 will rub themselves upon any hard object ; the wool does not fall off 

 from the rubbing, but from the irritation of the skin. It extends over 

 a great extent of the skin, which takes away the animal's flesh. 



Treatvieni. — Carbolic acid is the best thing to use. In Australia it 

 prevailed to a large extent, and there were men appointed to experi- 

 ment, and a great many remedies tried, and carbolic acid proved the 

 most effectual An ounce of creosote, dissolved in fifteen ounces of 

 spirits of wine, and sufficiently diluted with water, or an infusion of 

 tobacco ; one pint of oil of turpentine, one pound soft soap, one quart 

 of water ; or one ounce each of white hellebore and t bacco, to one 

 pint of water. To prevent the spread of the disease cleanse the pen 

 thoroughly, and do not put sheep in an infected pen for a considerable 

 length of time. 



Mange in Dog's, — The parasites are generally the sarcoptes. 



Sywptonts are generally very plain. There are certain exciting 

 causes, high feeding, dirt, etc. It usually attacks the back, about 

 the lumber vertebra, and extends to the head and neck, spreading 

 (juickly. Eczema usually attacks the belly, etc., while this attacks 

 the back. 



Treatment. — Carbolic acid ; a mercurial ointment. Clip the hair 

 nicely, and apply the remedy I have applied carbolic acid as strong 

 as one to eight. Do not apply either carbolic acid or blue ointment 

 over much surface at once. You may use general remedies, purgative, 

 etc. Cats may be attacked, and the same treatment is used. 



