SECTION V. 



DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 



SURFEIT, 



j Prurigo. 

 1 Eruptions. 



URTICARIA. 



GREASINESS OF SKIN. 



SADDLE SCALD. 



TETTER, or 



RINGWORM. 



GRUB IN THE SKIN. 



MANGE. 



HIDEBOUND. 



LOUSINESS. 



WARTS. 



GREASE. 



CHAPPED OR CRACKED HEELS. 



Modern physiologists have demonstrated that the skin 

 performs a highly important part in the animal and vege- 

 table kingdom ; that it is a powerful auxiliary to the lungs 

 in oxygenizing and vivifying the blood, and an extensive 

 emunctory by which the fluid materials that have performed 

 their duty are ehminated : the importance of its being 

 kept in a constantly clean and perfectly free state, in order 

 that it be able to perform these functions, &c. Q Lancet/ 

 27th April, 1844, p. 165.) 



SURFEIT. 



The word surfeit is used, in veterinary medicine, to denote 

 certain appearances on the skin which are the consequences 

 of excessive feeding. Horses standing in stables, and but 

 inadequately worked, are subject to heat and itching of the 

 skin, and to occasional eruptions. By an effort of the vital 

 powers, the redundance is thrown off in the form of an 

 eruption ; and in this manner, other and more serious evils 

 averted. Hence, surfeits are regarded rather as signs of 

 exuberant health than of actual disease. 



Prurigo. — I employ this term to signify those hot and 

 itchy states of the skin under which horses are eternally 



