398 THE MANGE — ITS ORIGIN. [BOOK II. 



Castile soap, 6 drachms, 



Oil of juniper, 40 drops. 

 Mix ; make into three balls and give one daily for a 

 week ; but should it gripe the animal, discontinue 

 it ; or rather add opium from half a drachm to a 

 drachm, and give the Sedative Clyster, page 371. 



SURFEIT— MANGE. 



Both of these are diseases of the animal's system, 

 and the first-mentioned proves its connexion with 

 the second by sometimes ending in the mange. 

 Over-feeding, or too much of it, or gross feeding, 

 as it is the cause of these twin diseases, so are the 

 two appellations it receives in the different stages 

 of the attack descriptive of the cause : both are of 

 French origin, as we apprehend ; sur-fait, or over- 

 done, being tantamount to mange in its imperfect 

 tenses, the effect of eating too much, which has 

 brought on the disease. The manger, as every 

 one knows, is the place for a horse to dine at, which 

 is again derived of manger, to eat, the noun from 

 the verb. Neither is a surfeit an uncommon dis- 

 ease with reasonable man, and is alike caused by 

 eating improperly, if not too much, and sometimes 

 from the preparation of viands that are over- 

 luxurious for the stomach that is to receive them, 

 and is in fact incapable of digestion. This is a 

 state of the stomach that is by no means uncommon, 

 and up to a certain extent happens every day to 



