SKIN DIS]^SES. 



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and sometimes called warbles, caused by undue pressure 

 from the harness. 



Treatment. — Rub in, about the size of a bean, of the 

 ointment of red iodide of mercury. (See Prescriptions 

 and Medicines.) 



Skin Diseases.— The many, and apparently different 

 varieties of skin diseases described by writers, many of 

 which are the same, and produced by the same cause, but 

 present different appearances in different animals, and in 

 different stages and conditions of the affection ; and where 

 the same cause can be properly assigned as producing 

 different diseases, although apparently dissimilar, the 

 treatment must be the same. Thus : if the acari is the 

 cause of more than one kind of skin disease, of course 

 the treatment must be directed to the destruction or 

 removal of this insect or mite, before a cure can be ef- 

 fected; so, also, with faulty assimulation or digestion, 

 which so often give rise to skin disease, will have to be 

 improved and corrected before the effect, (disease,) will 

 cease and be cured. 



(1.) Baldness.— Parts of the skin of the horse become 

 denuded of the hair, and occurs from minute or small 

 pimples which contain a fluid, and burst, or break, carry- 

 ing the hair with it. These pimples, or small tumors, how- 

 ever, .are sometimes vesicular, sometimes papular, and 

 sometimes scaly, and is caused by faulty digestion, and 

 is treated by soft feed, or fresh-cut grass. The hair will 

 grow again. 



Baldness is caused by scalds, burns, ^ and blisters; and 

 where the true skin is not entirely destroyed, the hair 

 can be restored by using a iveak ointment of iodme — io- 

 dine half a drachm, hog's lard, eight drachms, mix, and ap- 

 ply with rubbing with the hand, once every third day, till 



