HUNTING DIRECTORY. 85 



The Red Mange. 



two ounces (lialf a gill) of spirits of wine ; and, lastly, 

 one pint of rain or river water, and, with a sponge dipt 

 in the solution, let every part palpably affected be well 

 washed, every third day, till thrice performed ; then 

 leave three clear days, and repeat the former ceremony 

 of thrice as before ; letting three mercurial purging halls 

 be given at the equal distances of three or four days, 

 and not the least doubt of cure need be entertained, if 

 the mode prescribed is properly and judiciously attended 

 to. 



Of the red mange General Hanger thus speaks : — 

 " My dog had the mange ; not very bad, but something 

 much worse with it ; he had eight or ten large blotches 

 on his body, as big as large hazel nuts. I sent for an old 

 man who made a livelihood by curing dogs : he took a 

 bottle out of his pocket, and first dabbed the blotches 

 with a bit of tow, each two or three times. He then 

 stopped about five minutes, for that to dry in and pene- 

 trate ; after which he took a pot of ointment, and rubbed 

 the dog in well, for at least ten minutes, under the fore 

 legs, and on the belly, but particularly on the hack hone. 

 He then desired me not to wash the dog, or let him go 

 into the water ; telling me, he would call in about five 

 days. When he called, the dog was apparently well ; 

 so much so, that he said he did not think it necessary to 

 rub the dog again : however, I made him dab the blotches 

 again, and rub once more in. — When he called to be 

 paid, I told him that, upon my honour, if he would dis- 

 cover how the liquid and ointment were made, I would 

 give him two guineas, and never discover it till after his 

 death. He consented. The liquid is thus made : — Half 



