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proper ; for this disease is so infectious that every horse that may- 

 come near it will be in danger. 



The Mange is too well known to need a long description, though 

 some have been mistaken, and have taken a hot itching eruption for it. 



Symptoms. — At first it is confined to ' the skin, but by long continu-' 

 ance it vitiates and pollutes the blood. The skin is generally thick, 

 and full of wrinkles, especially about the mane, the loins, and the 

 tail ; and the little hair remaining on those parts stand erect. The 

 ears and eyebrows are commonly naked ; and when the limbs are 

 affected, they have the same appearance-: but at the same time the 

 horse is not raw, nor does the skin peel off as in a Surfeit. 



Causes. — The Mange is generally taken by infection, for it is so 

 very catching, that if a horse be put into a stable where one in the 

 Mange has stood before it be thoroughly cleansed, he will hardly fail 

 being infected. But though infection is the general, it is not the only 

 cause of the Mange. Low feeding, and running long abroad in cold, 

 pinchino- weather, without sufficient provender, will cause horses to 

 have the Mange. 



Cure. — When the horse has been infected by another, the disorder 

 is not so obstinate as when caused by starvation, for the blood will not 

 be in so bad a state. When you think a horse has got the Mange, 

 apply the following where you think it needful, and it will cure it af 

 the beginning without much trouble or expense. 



4 oz. of Sulphur Vivuni. 



4 do. White Copperas. 



i do. White Hellebore Root in powder. 



Mix all together in two quarts of churn-milk, and rub the places 

 well. By this method you may cure most scabs of short duration ; 

 but when once the manage has got great hold, it will require sharper 

 treatment. Make the following for one horse. 



4 oz. of Sulphur Vivum. 



2 do. White Hellebore Root, in powder. 



2 do. Blue Stone Vitriol, in powder. 

 h do. Verdigris, in powder. 



4 do. Flanders Oil of Bays, 



3 gills of Whale Oil. 



Mix all well together, and rub the horse well with it all over in the 

 sun, if in Summer, but before a fire if in the winter. In Summer you 

 must also turn him out to grass after rubbing, but in Winter keep him 

 warm in the house. You must be careful to wash your saddles and 

 bridles, cart gears, stands, mangers, racks, &c, well with quick-lime 

 and chamber-lie ; for if you do not clean all that the horse may have 

 used, the infection will remain. You will find the above a certain 

 cure, if managed rightly, for I have cured hundreds with it, and I do 

 not remember one instance of its failure. ( 



At the same time give freely of flour of sulphur and liver of anti- 

 mony ; and if you have a number of horses infected, be sure to rub 

 them all together. 



Some people say that when a horse is rubbed for the scab he will 

 infect others, but I am of opinion that he will not, neither do I remem- 

 ber an instance of it. 



