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THE RED MANGE. 



The disorder called the RED MANGE does not appear to be 

 nearly allied to what is so well known by the common appel- 

 lation of MANSE, but to be a species of disease within itself, 

 seated in the skin, and not always infectious amongst dogs lying 

 together, but almost invariably communicated by a bitch to her 

 litter of whelps, particularly if she had it upon her during the 

 time she was in pup. This disorder is most malignant in its 

 effect ; the incessant and severe itching, which, from all obser- 

 vation, seems accompanied by a burning heat, and this too in- 

 creased by the perpetual biting and scratching of the tortured 

 animal, gives such parts of the frame as are severely affected, the 

 appearance of having been scalded by some boiling liquor, with 

 a consequent loss of hair. Tt is this distinct kind of mange that 

 so constantly baffles dog-doctors and dog-mongers of every de- 

 scription, and reduces them to their ne plus ultra, where the fer- 

 tility of invention can go no further, It is, perhaps, the most 

 deceptive disorder to which any part of the animal world can 

 become unluckily subject ; for when it has (seemingly and re- 

 peatedly) submitted to, and been subdued by, some of the com- 

 bination of combustibles before described, it has as suddenly, as 

 repeatedly, and as unexpectedly, made its re-appearance with all 

 its former virulence. Great care, nice attention, and long ex- 

 perience, can discover but one infallible mode of perfect eradi- 

 cation. Let half an ounce of corrosive sublimate be reduced in 

 a glass mortar to an impalpable powder ; to this, by a very small 

 quantity at a time, add two ounces (half a gill) of spirits of wine ; 

 and, lastly, one pint of rain or river water, and, with a sponge 



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