43^ ON THE MANGE. 



can I altogether agree with Gibfon, who afTerts, 

 that the mange is feldom more than fkin-deep, 

 My reafons are, that if you keep a horfe very 

 poorly, he will be mangy ; but if you line hi^ 

 infide well, however you may negle6l him ex- 

 ternally, he will not generally be mangy, except- 

 ing, perhaps, th6 cafe of your being a lime- 

 carter. A few years ago, on the recommen= 

 dation of certain flable-cEconomifts, and in the 

 teeth of common fenfe and my own experience, 

 I undertook the wife projeft of feeding labour- 

 ing cart-horfes upon carrots atid oat-flraw, an4 

 other vegetable trafh, for which I was properly 

 rewarded in a fhort time, by the trouble of 

 curing them all of the mange. This difeafe, or 

 morbid refult of poverty and filth, fuffered to 

 arrive at an extreme degree of inveteracy, de- 

 generates into a marafmus or confumption, ah-? 

 folutely incurable. 



The mange, if a mere cuticular affection, 

 induced by an external caufe, or caught by 

 contaft of a difeafed horfe (which laft may 

 happen from rubbing againft fuch an one, or 

 wearing infe61ed clothes, or {landing in an in- 

 fe6led ilall) is fpeedily cured by external ap- 

 plications, with the aid of a dofe or two of 

 phyfic ; but when the difeafe originates in the 

 mafs of humours being vitiated, the cure will 

 require a greater length of time, and a larger 

 {hare of medical afliflance. As to internals, the 



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