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this would be a very difficult matter, and while you cured him he could again 

 contract it by coming in contact with the parasites that had not been destroyed. 



The "P. D. Q. 1 ' Powder, advertised elsewhere, is especially adapted to disin- 

 fect rooms in your house, in the case of a house dog, one not having his own 

 kennel or sleeping place, as you can dust it on the carpet without harming the 

 carpet, afterward sweeping the room. After you have applied my skin cure all 

 over the dog three or four times, it "is then only necessary to apply to the sore, 

 spots twice a day, that may yet be on the dog, due to his having irritated them by 

 biting or rubbing. You will find my remedy a great hair grower as well, and no 

 danger at all if the dog should lick it off, as it is non-poisonous. 



You need not have any fear of contracting mange from your dog; I have 

 treated many cases for years past and never got it not transmitable from the 

 dog to man. 



There are several skin diseases called by different names, or designated as 

 different kinds of mange, but the treatment I have given for mange, and the one 

 for eczema, about covers the whole ground of skin troubles, or, my remedy will 

 cure them all, excepting that in some of them, as in eczema, internal remedies 

 must also be used at the same time to work on the blood. Eczema is fully treated 

 elsewhere. Carbolic acid is used in many mange cures, a dangerous ingredient 

 unless carefully used and in small quantities. 



HARRY W. LACY, Kennel Editor of American Stock-Keeper, has this to say of 

 rnange: 



"It is quite true that eczema or red mange is to some extent contagious, but 

 we have not found it to be so to any extent which would justify the term being 

 applied to it. It is desirable, always to keep a dog affected with skin disease 

 away from other dogs, because constant contact in the kennel or at play is 

 liable to give rise to an exchange of skin complaint. On the other hand, a dog with 

 distemper, which is very contagious, is made to give it to animals which never 

 come near to him, and a dog with fleas will furnish a supply to all his fellows In 

 the neighborhood. In most cases mange is, however, not due to contact by the 

 victim with another mangy cur, but is due to out-and-out neglect. Mange is never 

 known in kennels where the dogs are properly looked after; it is a cultivation of 

 the back-yard, and thrives best upon the poor chained-up brute that is more 

 human than his owner who keeps him chained there. In a word, filth is the 

 soil on which alone the sarcoptic parasite can thrive. 



"A dog with ordinary skin irritation, developing into redness and rash, has 

 acquired that in one of two ways. Either he has an hereditary predisposition to 

 skin complaint (and here let it be said that this hereditary predisposition is a very 

 common fact, and is due undoubtedly in a great measure to the in-breeding which 

 has been carried on to a greater or less extent in all breeds) or else he ,'s suffering 

 from impurity in the blood which may be due to over-feeding or liver complaint 

 or want of sufficient exercise or any one of a dozen other things. If the former 

 bo the case it is by no means probable that a cure will be affected, and the most 

 important thing thai can be done is in the direction of preventing the disease 

 from being handed down to other generations. If it is intended to breed from the 

 dog it should be mated with the newest blood possible that is to say with an 

 animal having a very different pedigree from its own. The disease is certain 

 to re-appear even after the dog has been apparently cured. A change of diet or of 

 weather will always be liable to precipitate a fresh attack," 



