HTOE-BOUND, CAUSED BY INlfcRNAjL TtJMOURS. 149 



The cure is to be effected by topical applications of sulphur, and giving the 

 same internally as an alterative ; but mercurials are mostly preferred by our 

 moderns ; and there is not such a variety of opinions and prescriptions at this 

 moment in practice for the most momentous diseases, as for this loathsome 

 malady : neglect and ignorance having brought on the evii, ignorance and 

 stupidity engage to effect the cure. 1 shall subjoin a few forms of those which 

 are in most repute, and have been found effectual : even alteration is fre- 

 quently found beneficial, though it may not at first seem to nave been for the 

 besL 



Mange Ointment. 



Prepared hog's lard, 2 pounds, 



Sulphur vivum, 1 pound, 



White hellebore, in powder, 6 ounces. 



Mix with oil of turpentine sufficient to make a soft ointment, rub the animal 

 wherever the eruption and scurf appear, with hair cloths, or a new besom, so 

 as to get rid of the loose filth before applying the ointment. Rub it in well 

 every other day, and give the following 



Alterative for the Mange. — No. 1. 



Tartarized antimony, 1 ounce, 

 Muriate of quicksilver, 2 drachms, 



Ginger and ) jg^ed, of each 3 ounces. 

 Anise seeds, \ ^ ' 



Mix, with mucilage sufficient to form the mass ; divide it into six balls, and 

 give one every morning until the eruption disappears. 



Alterative for Mange. — No. 2. 



Antimony in fine powder, 8 ounceiJ, 

 Grains of Paradise, 3 ounces. 



Mix, and add Venice turpentine to form the mas*, which divide into twelve 

 balls. Give one daily whilst the rubbing is contin i^d. 



HIDE-BOUND. 



The cause of hide-bound is commonly the same as that which produced the 

 iast-mentioned disease, viz. poverty, only that the particular animals may not 

 both be in the same state of general health, and the more depraved would in- 

 cur mange, whilst another would become simply hide-bound. This is less of 

 an original disease than the effect of some other, and of bad digestion and con- 

 sequent defective perspiration beyond all others, as may be inferred from what 

 I have said concerning the intimacy that exists between those two operations 

 of the animal system in my second chapter of book 1, at pages 23 — 25. The 

 justness of this view of the cause of hide-bound was further proved by a series 

 of dissections of this particular malady undertaken by me in May 1820. I 

 invariably found tumours had formed upon the larger lacteal vessels of the 

 peritonaeum, on the gut, or the like kind of attack en the pleura that covers 

 the lungs. The formation of those tumours was no doubt the mediate cause 

 of hide-bound, and had been brought on (I have every icaemi for believiiyj) b? 



