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will show dark-red pimples or pustules about 

 the size of a pinhead. This form of mange is 

 sometimes difficult to get rid of. It can be 

 treated with the preparation of coal-tar and 



FIG. 25. DEMODEX FOLLICULORUM. 

 (Enlarged 100 Diameters.) 

 2, Larva hexapod ; 3, Larva octopod. 



oil of cade given above, which must be well 

 rubbed in with a stiff brush, and which can be 

 alternated every four days by an application of 

 mercurial ointment well rubbed into the same 

 parts. 



StomacJi-worms (Ascarides of tlie Cat). 

 (A. mystax, Zeder; A. fells, Gmelin.) 



The so-called stomach-worm, which is found 

 both in the stomach and in the intestines, 

 especially of young cats, is a worm from two 

 to three or four inches in length, about the 



