51 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



Flower of sulphur 2 ounces 



Cream of tartar 3 ounces 



Bromide of potassium 3 drams 



Mix and divide into eighteen powders and give one in the morning. 



"The blood purifying and cooling pills mentioned are the best thing to use, 

 handy and. easier to give. 



"Besides the mange and eczema cures on the market the following are useful 

 in cases where there is great irritation with little or no eruption: 



Plumbi acet Va dram 



Soda bibarat I 1 /* drams 



Glycerin 2 ounces 



Aqua camphor 8 ounces 



Lanolin 4 ounces 



Lard 4 ounces 



Salicylic acid 1 ounce 



Boracic acid 1 ounce 



Apply once a day and wash every week and repeat. 



Another is: 



Carbolized glycerin 1 ounce 



Laudanum 2 ounces 



Carbonate of potash 2 drams 



Apply all over twice a day, wash twice a week. 



Another is:- 



Boracic acid ! 1 ounce 



Salicylic acid; 1 ounce 



Laudanum 1 ounce 



Whale oil 14 ounces 



Apply all over twice a day and wash once a week with Bberhart's Soap." 



"THE KENNELMAN" has this to say of Ezema, published in American Stock- 

 Keeper : 



"Obstinate cases of eczema are most distressingly aggravating to the kennel 

 owner. In a majority of instances this condition arises from the continued use 

 of stapchy foods. When the symptoms appear pustulous formations at the roots 

 of the hair, after a preliminary redness of the skin and wet oozy sores that appear 

 to the size of a half dollar in a night , the diet should be attended to. Lean, raw 

 meat must be fed almost exclusively. Then the blood must be purified, and exer- 

 cise given freely. A hp.ndy preparation that will be found excellent as a general 

 cleanser and preventive is a mixture of equal parts (not weights) of Epsom salts, 

 cream of tartar and sulphur lac; a pinch every morning, in quantity according to 

 the size of the dog, dropped on tlie tongue for a week will do good. It is a remedial 

 agcnl that is useful at any time. In bad chronic cases this mixture will do well 

 one drop of fluid extract of colchicum and five grains of sulphate of soda, three 

 times daily in a capsule; feed raw beef and no cereal food. Apply to the sores 

 equal parts of oil of tar and alcohol, or Eberhart's Skin Cure. 



"Another good thing is the liver o.f sulphur one buys in pound tins (Sulph. 

 Fptase). Dissolve a teaspoonful in a quart of warm water and apply at once to the 



