CHAP. III.] ALTERATIVES. — HIDE-BOUND. 403 



Alterative for Mange, — No. 2. 



Antimony, in fine powder, 8 ounces, 



Grains of Paradise, 3 ounces. 

 Mix, and add Venice turpentine to form the mass, 

 which divide into twelve balls. Give one daily 

 whilst the rubbing is continued. 



HIDE-BOUND. 



The cause of hide-bound is commonly the same 

 as that which produced the last-mentioned disease, 

 viz. poverty, only that the particular animals may 

 not both be in the same state of general health, and 

 the more depraved would incur mange, whilst 

 another would become simply hide-bound. This is 

 less of an original disease than the effect of some 

 other, and of bad digestion and consequent de- 

 fective perspiration beyond all others, as may be 

 inferred from what is said concerning the intimacy 

 that exists between those two operations of the 

 animal system in the second chapter of book I. at 

 pages 78 — 82. The justness of this view of the 

 cause of hide-bound was further proved by a series 

 of dissections of this particular malady undertaken 

 by us in May 1820. We invariably found tubercles 

 had formed upon the mesenteric canal, on the gut, 

 or the like kind of attack on the membrane that 

 covers the lungs. The formation of those tumours 

 was, no doubt, the mediate cause of hide-bound, 

 and had been brought on by the inordinate use of 



