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of one part of coal-tar, one part of oil of cade, 

 and six or eight parts of benzine is an excellent 

 remedy, although less cleanly. It should be 

 applied with a moderately stiff brush daily for 

 four days in succession, when the animal should 

 be sponged off with tepid water and soap, and 

 at the end of two days the application renewed. 

 If the animal is much debilitated it can be put 

 on a tonic treatment of one grain of quinine in 

 thirty drops of whisky three times in the day, 

 or upon teaspoonful doses of a mixture of equal 

 parts of syrup of wild-cherry bark and Hux- 

 ham's tincture. Two-drop doses of Fowler's 

 solution, given three times a day on a little 

 piece of cake, bread, or anything which the cat 

 will take from the hand, is an excellent tonic. 



Follicular Mange (l)emodex folliculoruni). 



Follicular mange, which is due to a parasite 

 called the Demodex folliculorum, affects the nose 

 around the muzzle, the skin of the chin, and 

 the skin of the paws surrounding the claws, 

 where it burrows in beside the roots of the 

 whiskers and larger and grosser hairs, and 



