140 SORE BACK, WITHERS, AND SITFASTS. 



A capital wash is recommended by Mr Mayhew, 

 viz. : — 



About a pint and a lialf is said to be the quantity 

 required to make one dressing. Every portion of the 

 entire coat should be saturated with this wash, and 

 thus left for two clear days, when it should be washed 

 clean with soft soap and warm water, equal care being 

 taken to omit no part of the body, Avhich should after- 

 wards be thoroughly dried and the coat well dressed or 

 whisked. 



When all is dry and clean apply a second dressing, 

 proceeding as directed for tlie first, and a third after the 

 two days have elapsed and the second cleaning process 

 has been thoroughly gone through, after which the 

 disease ought to be eradicated. A mere disposition to 

 scratching is generally successfully treated by giving 

 bran mashes night and morning for some days, and 

 part green food instead of hay. 



SOEE BACK, AVITHERS, AND SITFASTS, 



should be carefully attended to with poultices or water- 

 dressing {see page 149), while a disposition to throw 

 off pus is present, after which the application of heal- 

 ing agents (among which chloride of zinc lotion and 

 glycerine are now prominent) is the proper course, but 

 applicable only to decidedly trifling and superficial 

 cases. It is imperative, if a cure be desired, that no 



