3i6 VETERINARY HOMOeOPATHY. 



sores to heal, a lotion, consisting of Bichloride of Mercury, one 

 drachm dissolved in sixteen fluid ounces of boiling water, to which 

 when cool, should be added four fluid ounces of Glycerine, should 

 be carefully applied three times a day with a soft piece of sponge; 

 this will effectually destroy all the acari that may be on the legs 

 in about two days; a small quantity only of this lotion must be 

 applied at one dressing, just sufficient to cover the whole affected 

 surface, but not more, lest the Mercury should become absorbed 

 into the S3'stem. After the acari are destroyed the treatment ex- 

 ternally may revert to the Benzoated zinc ointment; but if this 

 does not seem to do the desired good, while the itching and irri- 

 tation is very intense, an ointment of Bismuth nitrate, one part 

 to eight of prepared lard, while internally Croton tiglium ix 

 should be administered three times a day. In old-standing chronic 

 cases it will be better to give from the commencement Arsenicum 

 album 3x, three time a day, and bathe the legs with a lotion made 

 by mixing Liquor arsenicalis (B. P.), one ounce in a pint of dis- 

 tilled water, and frequently applying same to the legs and that 

 liberally. 



If the case has developed into one of grapes it will be well to 

 try dressing the legs with a lotion consisting of equal parts of 

 Tincture of Iodine, Methylated spirit and water, and to administer 

 internally lodiiun 3X three times a day, after first cleansing the 

 leg with poultices and washing for two or three days. 



"Occasionally, when the grapes are but small. Clematis 0, in- 

 ternally, and externally as an ointment in the proportion of one 

 part of the tincture to eight parts of vaseline, will be found effec- 

 tual; it is hardly possible to say which of these various methods 

 of treatment is the best; it is not easy to differentiate between the 

 cases, the constitutional symptoms do not enable one to readily 

 distinguish between them, nor do they render any aid in dis- 

 criminating that which is most appropriate. 



Accessory Measures. — Much aid to treatment can be ob- 

 tained from careful dietary; during the summer the food should 

 be confined to artificial grasses: but in the winter carrots, pars- 

 nips, turnips, or even mangold with sweet last season's hay chaff , 

 and about one- fourth the ordinary allowance of corn (oats). 

 Twice a week a mash consisting of boiled linseed, which has been 

 gradually simmering for three or four hours, mixed with a suffi- 



