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with mange should not be allowed to sleep or run with 

 well ones, since the acari will be communicated to the well 

 ones, and thus spread the disease. 



MEASLES. 



"This, although a skin disease, is rather subcutaneous, 

 consisting in a multitude of small watery pustules, devel- 

 oped between the fat and the skin, and indeed scattered 

 throughout the cellular tissue and adipose (fatty) matter. It 

 has been regarded by some writers as a milder form of lep- 

 rosy."* 



u The external appearances are reddish raised splotches 

 or patches, more particularly seen in the armpits and the 

 insides of the thighs at the first, and afterward on other 

 parts of the body, or it may cover the entire surface. The 

 symptoms are general disturbance of the system, quick 

 pulse, heat of skin, cough, discharge from the nostrils, loss 

 of appetite, nausea, puffiness or swelling of the eyelids, and 

 congestion of the blood-vessels of the eye itself,feebleness of 

 the muscles particularly of the hinder extremities, and the 

 formation of blackish pustules under the tongue. Event- 

 ually the skin usually comes off in patches, "f 



The disease is seldom fatal if reasonable attention is given 

 the affected animals, but measly pork is disgusting and un- 

 wholesome, and should not be consumed by man. 



"The treatment is very simple, consisting of cooling 

 drinks, low diet, and mild purgatives ; and some simple rem- 

 edies directed to the skin and kidneys, such as Epsom salts 

 as a purgative, sulphur and nitrate of potash to act upon the 

 skin and kidneys ; and if the cough is very distressing, sal 

 ammoniac (muriate of ammonia) in teaspoonful doses, 

 mingled in the food (the muriate of ammonia must be finely 

 powdered) three or four times a day."f Give of the mu- 

 riate of ammonia one-eighth of an ounce as a dose ; nitrate 

 of potash, one ounce ; flowers of sulphur, one-sixteenth of 



*Youatt. fReasor. 



