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The treatment of this disease must principally consist In the 

 topical application of some specific. As in the itch of the 

 human subject, the chief remedy should be sul])hur, which is 

 indeed moi*e certain than any other. The animal should be 

 well cleaned, so as thoroughly to expose the surface of the 

 affected parts, and the following liniment rubbed in with the 

 liand or a piece of flannel : — 



Sulphur vivum, or yellow sulphur 4 oz 



Train, linseed, or olive oil 12 oz. 



Oil of turpentine 2 oz. 



Mix. 



The efficacy of the above may be greatly assisted by substi- 

 tuting three or four ounces of oil of tar for a similar quantity of 

 the oil. If the smell of train oil be objected to, the olive oil may 

 be substituted instead; and if necessary, the ointment may be 

 rendered the same colour as that of the horse. If black or brown, 

 a sufficient quantity of soot may be used to render the ointment 

 black, and it Avill, at the same time, assist its efficacy, for soot 

 has been found of great assistance in this disease. If the 

 animal is bay or chesimt, the ointment may be coloured with 

 Armenian bole. In obstinate cases, white hellebore has been 

 added to the ointment with advantage. Bleeding is useless in 

 this disease ; and although it is customary to recommend mer- 

 curial physic, its exhibition is not always unattended with 

 danger, owing to the poverty of the animal, unless administered 

 in very moderate doses. In general, it is better to avoid physic 

 altogether, but to give the following powder daily for a week 

 with the food : — 



Yellow sulphur 4 dr. 



Black antimony 2 dr. 



The ointment should be applied daily for three or four days, 

 when the skin should be well washed Avith soap and water, and 

 the ointment repeated, if necessary, as before. There is little 

 or no danger of infection after the ointment has been thoroughly 

 applied. Uidess the animal Is much wanted, his best place Is at 

 grass during the progress of the cure. 



Thp mange Is very fi'equently attended by the presence of a 

 great number of lice, and sometimes these lice occur without 

 the mange, and occasion an itching similar to It. If they cannot 

 be removed by washing, the ointment for mange will destroy 

 them. — Ed.] 



[There Is a disease very much resembling the mange, and 

 which Is apt to be mistaken for it, there being the same Irritation 

 of the skin, and the same disposition to bite the body, and the 



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