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will thus be ascertained, and the skin will be cleansed, and its pores opened for the 



more effectual application of the ointment. 



The horse should be well supplied with nourishing, but not stimulating food. 

 As much green meat as he will eat should be given to him, or, what is far better, 

 he should be turned out, if the weather is not too cold. It may be useful to 

 add, that, after the horse has been once well dressed with either of these lini- 

 ments, the danger of contagion ceases. It is necessary^ however, to be assured 

 that every mangy place has been anointed. It will be prudent to give two or 

 three dressings after the horse has been apparently cured, and to continue the 

 alteratives for ten days or a fortnight. 



The cure being completed, the clothing of the horse should be well soaked 

 in water, to which a fortieth part of the saturated solution of the chloride of 

 lime has been added ; after which it should be washed with soap and water, 

 and again washed and soaked in a solution of the chloride of lime. Every 

 part of the harness should undergo a similar purification. The currycomb 

 may be scoured, but the brush should be burned. The rack, and manger, 

 and partitions, and every part of the stable which the horse could possibly have 

 touched, should be well washed with a hair-broom — a pint of the chloride of 

 lime being added to three gallons of water. All the wood- work should then 

 be scoured with soap and water, after which a second washing with the chloride 

 of lime will render all secure. Some farmers have pulled down their 

 stables, when they have been thoroughly infected with mange. This is being 

 unnecessarily cautious. The efficacy of the chloride of lime was not then known ; 

 but if that is carefully and sufficiently applied to every part of the stable and its 

 furniture, there cannot afterwards be danger. 



Every case of itchiness of the skin should be regarded with suspicion. When 

 a horse is seen to rub the root of his tail, or his head, or neck, against the 

 manger, the parts should be carefully examined. Some of the hair may have 

 been rubbed or torn off, but if the roots remain firmly adherent, and there is 

 only redness and not scurfiness of the skin, it probably is not mange, but only 

 inflammation of the skin, from too great fulness of blood. A little blood should 

 be abstracted — a purgative administered — and the alteratives given. The 

 mange ointment cannot do harm, and may possibly prevent this heat of the 

 skin from degenerating into mange, or arrest the progress of mange if it has 

 commenced. If a scurfiness of skin should appear on any of the points that 

 are pressed upon by the collar or harness, the veterinary surgeon will do right 

 to guard against danger by alterative medicine and the use of the ointment. 



WARTS. 

 These are tumours of variable size, arising from the cuticle, and afterwards 

 connected with the true skin by means of the vessels which supply the growth of 

 the tumours. They arc found on the eyelids, the muzzle, the ears, the belly, 

 the neck, the penis, and the prepuce. There are some caustics available, 

 but frequently they must be removed by an operation. If the root is 

 very small, it may be snipped asunder, close to the skin, with a pair of 

 scissors, and touched with the lunar caustic. If the pedicle or stem is 

 oomewhat larger, a ligature of waxed silk should be passed firmly round 

 it, and tightened every day. The source of nutriment being thus removed, the 

 tumour will, in a short time, die and drop off. If the warts are large, or in 

 considerable clusters, it will be necessary to cast the horse, in order to cut them 

 off close to the skin : the root should then be seared with a red-hot iron. 

 Unless these precautions are used, the warts will Bpeedily sprout again. 



