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Acetic acid, 1 ounce, 



Water, . . . J 5 ounces, 



Pulverized cantharides, .... 1 ounce. 



Mix ; let it macerate for fourteen days ; then filter through 

 linen or blotting paper, and add one ounce of spirits of wine : it 

 is then fit for use. To be applied occasionally, by means of a 

 small piece of v sponge. 



A preparation which answers the same purpose is composed 

 of equal parts of oil of turpentine and olive oil, to be applied 

 as above. 



MALANDERS AND SALANDEHS. 



The above terms are usually applied to scurfy eruptions, ac- 

 companied with oozing crusts and cracks in the skin, situated 

 either in front of the hock or at the posterior part of the knee 

 joint. They probably produce some sort of an itching sensation ; 

 occasional pain, and even lameness, have been known to arise from 

 them. 



The disease is said to arise from long travelling on bad roads, 

 want of cleanliness, &c. ; but probably it originates from that 

 peculiar state of the system which favors the production of cuta- 

 neous diseases.* The disease does not prevail to any great 



* In the treatment of cutaneous affections the reader must always bear in 

 mind the fact, that a local disease seldom, if ever, exists long ere the constitu- 

 tion suffers ; and that almost every case of an eruptive nature is either symp- 

 tomatic or sympathetic. But lest we may be charged with uttering sentiments 

 exclusively our own, we quote from an article on Diseases of the Skin, by T. 

 Hunt, Esq., F. It. C. S. His extensive practice in the Western Dispensary 

 for diseases of the skin entitle his opinions to the highest confidence. 



um * * A local disease can so seldom exist^;er se, independently of some 

 lesion of the general system, that to argue in favor of the constitutional origin 

 or nature of any particular local affection, may seem superfluous. If a child 

 falls into a tub of hot water, the whole surface of the body is blistered — it is 

 a local affection ; but how soon do the symptoms show that it is one in which 

 the whole system participates ? A carbuncle, an eruption of small-pox, scarla- 

 tina, or measles, and an attack of erysipelas or vesicular fever, are all so many 

 illustrations of the fully admitted truth, that a severe affection of the skin, 

 v.hether caused by accident or otherwise, involves the constitution in the gen- 

 eral disturbance. In the milder forms of skin diseases the general lesion may 

 be less obvious ; but from analogy we are bound to conclude that it exists. If 

 a person be inoculated for small-pox, and but one pustule appears, that pus- 

 tule is preceded and accompanied by some degree of fever. Nor is it possible 



