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Iodine. It may be remarked the stain can be removed from 

 the hands by the application of warm water, in which a 

 httle soda has been dissolved. 



In dealing with ring-worm — and the same applies to 

 mange — the mode of procedure was to wash the affected 

 part, to soften the skin, and then to apply compound Tinc- 

 ture of Iodine, rubbing it in with an old tooth-brush for a 

 few seconds, but taking care that too large a surface of the 

 body was not treated at the same time. In one case when 

 an animal was so treated from head to foot it very nearly 

 died in consequence, and was with much difficulty nursed 

 back to health again. Unless the part affected is a very 

 limited one it is scarcely to be expected that one application 

 will suffice, and the moment there is any suspicion of a fresh 

 breaking-out, another resort to the Iodine must be made. 

 Nor does it suffice only to touch the visible signs of the evil 

 since it creeps along under the hair, so that a considerable 

 margin of the surrounding skin should also be included in 

 dealing with the attack, and the touch is more to be relied 

 upon than sight ; any place, therefore, which feels at all 

 rough when passing the hand over the coat should receive 

 attention at once, to check the spread of the ailment before 

 it has become actually visible. 



The rug worn next the skin should also be gone over with 

 the Iodine to prevent the complaint being started again 

 through this agency ; and every brush which is used for 

 dressing should be kept entirely for the patient, and thrown 

 into a bucket of soft soap and water every time after being 

 used. The manger and walls of the box, or stall, should fre- 

 quently be washed over with warm water and soft soap, to 

 which about a gill of paraffin has been added, and for this 

 purpose a large brush, such as is used for white- washing, will 

 be found very useful. 



There is some resemblance between eczema and mange, in 

 that both display points of incrustation from which a dis- 

 charge issues, and there is present a considerable amount of 

 irritation, which the animal endeavours to allay by rubbing 

 violently against anything available ; it may therefore be 

 well to point out that with eczema the itching is most felt 



