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fluid, others ordinary pus, or matter tinged with 

 blood, which is easily evacuated by squeezing. 

 This fluid contains the parasite, which looks, 

 when examined under the microscope, like a 

 small silk-worm. 



As time goes on, the original patch increases 

 in size and others form, the pimples break, one 

 running into another, and unhealthy-looking sores 

 result. When these wounds heal, the skin has a 

 dry, corrugated appearance, and little excres- 

 cences of skin are formed, and the hair does 

 not always grow again. 



The skin in follicular mange generally turns 

 a dark greyish-blue or black colour, and the 

 disease is called by some people "black mange". 



Treatment : It is a most unsatisfactory disease 

 to treat, for often after months of hard work 

 the dog is no better, but on the contrary is much 

 worse, the disease having progressed in spite of 

 everything. If the patient is not a valuable dog, 

 and the attack a bad one, it is much better to 

 destroy him at once ; however, when it is decided 

 to give the dog a chance, treatment should com- 

 mence by having the dog, if a long-coated one, 

 clipped all over, so that the sores may be got at, 

 and then dress him all over with the following : — 



Recipe : 



Black Sulphur, 2 ounces. 



Kerosene, 4 ounces. 



Olive Oil, 4 ounces. 



Cocoa-nut Oil, 4 ounces. 



Castor Oil, .... 4 ounces. 



Wright's Solution of Coal Tar, - 1 ounce. 



Well mix. 



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