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tiuues a longer or shorter period, as the treatment is more or less 

 judicious. Bleeding, aperients, and febrifuges, form the constitu- 

 tional remedies :• the topical ones are tepid fomentations the first 

 two days ; and, when the tumefaction has given place to ulceration, 

 the application of a cooling unguent of superacetate of lead (sugar 

 of lead) f with spermaceti ointment, will be proper. What remains 

 of the aflFection, in a week or ten days* time, may be treated as 

 common mange. 



Tlie anomalies of mange are numerous ; among them may be 

 reckoned the acute variety just noticed, but which was appended 

 to surfeit, from some similarity it possessed to that form of the 

 complaint. Local mange, as an anomaly, exists under as many 

 forms as the parts it attacks. Almost every eruptive complaint 

 may degenerate into mange, such is the predisposition in all the 

 carnivora to psoric and herpetic affections. Those that deserve 

 specification are canker both within and without the ear, which 

 will follow in due order. 



Inflamed scrotum is of the mange variety, and partakes of the 

 nature of erysipelas, which see. — Ulcerated eyelids, already de- 

 scribed with Diseases of the Eye, are of the like kind. 



Diseased toes or claws. — The affection here meant is a singular 

 anomaly of mange of the following kind. One of them will appear 

 highly inflamed, swollen, and somewhat ulcerated, around the claw. 

 In such a case the dog employs himself in continually licking it, 

 which, instead of doing good, as is supposed, always makes it worse. 

 It is commonly mistaken for some accidental injury; and the 

 owner is surprised to find that neither the dog's licking, nor 

 his own attempts to make the toe sound, succeed. The fact 

 is, that this is simply a mangy affection, and may be readily cured 

 by applying the sixth ointment directed for the cure of mange. If 

 it should, however, prove very obstinate, the first ointment directed 

 for Canker' on the Outside of the Ear may be then tried with con- 

 fidence. In either case, the foot must be sewed up in leather, to 

 prevent the dog getting at it, taking particular care not to bind it 



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