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necessary to muzzle it. After immersion of the parts, it 

 must be transferred to a quite clean hutch containing for 

 litter clean evenly laid wheat straw and a piece of flannel, 

 in which it may make its bed. The food must be confined 

 to bread and milk, or milk with some flour and suet boiled 

 in it, and twice daily the following very effective ointment 

 must be applied carefully and thoroughly to the diseased 

 parts : 



Turpentine i Part. 



Tar . . . . i do. 



Sulph. Copper (powdered) . . . . . . . . 3 do. 



Red Precipitate (do.) i do. 



Pound the bluestone and precipitate finely together first, 

 and then add them to the tar, using sufficient turpentine to 

 render the consistence of the ointment not too thick. The 

 first two or three days' application of this will cure the 

 foot-rot, upon which its use may be discontinued ; and a 

 daily washing in the strongest solution of bluestone 

 possible, followed by the application of a little vaseline, 

 may be continued until a complete cure is effected. We 

 have found foot-rot a very annoying malady, and very 

 difficult to get rid of ; so that the necessity of preventing it 

 is important. 



Ferrets very often acquire from freshly introduced animals 

 a skin disease which partakes of the nature of mange, but 

 from its nature should rather be i termed scab. A slight 

 eruption appears on the skin, chiefly about the back and 

 sides, and causes considerable irritation, which makes the 

 ferret scratch and gnaw until a sore is formed. The malady 

 is, in the first instance, generally made known by this 



