RECEIPT BOOK. 137 



Mange. 



This is a cutaneous disease, which is very con- 

 tagious, for so many cows as come in contact with 

 one labouring under the disorder, will be sure to 

 catch it. Its symptoms are, a scarf on the exter- 

 nal part of the body, which is always attended with 

 an itching. This the animal shows, by having a 

 continual inclination to rub the affected part or 

 parts again?t any thing she can get at. Some say 

 that it is caused by a kind of animalcula?, which 

 burrows in the skin. It generally attacks those 

 animals which are low in flesh, and have been fed 

 on poor forage. 



The first step in order to cure this disease is to 

 take a currycomb and gently curry off the scurf, 

 in order that the medicine may have the better ef- 

 fect. After this the following application is to be 

 rubbed on the parts affected, which may be repeat- 

 ed every three or four days till a cure is effected; 

 and it seldom requires more than two or three 

 applications: 



Flowers of sulphur 1 lb. ^ 



Spirits of turpentine ^ pt. ' 



Train oil, enough to make it into a 

 thin liquid. 



Horn Distemptr, 



Tliis is a disease which has its seat in the horns. 

 Cows are more subject to it than oxen, and it does 

 not attack bulls; and steers and heifers, under three 

 years old, it is said, are not subject to it. The 

 distemper causes the pith of the horn to be gradu- 

 ally consumed. It is most commonly confined to 

 one horn only, but sometimes appears in both. It 

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