lU HAL VETERINARY HEVRET^ 113 



MANGE ON HORSES, CATTLE OR DOGS 



This consists of chronic eruptions of the skin, causing" the hair 

 to fall out and leaving a somewhat raw surface of the skin with a 

 discharge of sticky substances attended by an offensive odor. The 

 parts afifected are exceedingly itchy and sensitive. 



TREATMENT 



This condition is caused by a humor in the blood and therefore 

 such treatment must first be given as acts directly on the circu- 

 lation. For this purpose give one tablespoonful of Sanguitone in 

 food twice or three times daily to adult horses or cattle, giving 

 smaller animals less, according, to their size and age. Sanguitone 

 is prepared especially for these troubles and therefore gives most 

 satisfactory results. The surface of the afifected parts should be 

 washed clean with soap and warm water. When dry, rub well 

 with Dcrmasote once daily until the itching ceases and the hair is 

 restored. 



BOILS OR FURUNCLES 



These may appear on any part of the skin, but are especially 

 common on the lower parts of the limbs, and on the shoulders 

 and back where the skin is irritated by accumulated secretion and 

 chafing with the harness. In other cases the cause is constitutional, 

 or attended by unwholesome diet and overwork with loss of gen- 

 eral health and condition. They also follow on weakening diseases, 

 notably strangles, in which irritants are retained in the system from 

 overproduction of poisons and efifete matters during fever, and im- 

 perfect elimination. There is also the presence of a pyogenic bac- 

 terium, by which the disease may be maintained and propagated. 



While Boils are pus-producing, they dififer from simple postule 

 in affecting the deepest layers of the true skin, and even the super- 

 ficial layers of the connective tissues beneath, and in the death and 

 sloughing out of the central part of the infiammed mass (core). 

 The depth of the hard, indurated, painful swelling, and the forma- 



