294 KENNEL DISEASES. 
Another preparation which tends to allay intense itching, and is especially 
adapted to house pets, is composed as follows: 
Brandy, one hundred parts; glycerin, fifteen parts; cologne water, fifteen 
parts; tincture of benzoin, five parts; salicylic acid, two parts; menthol, one 
part. 
If the skin is broken, after this has been applied the following should be 
freely dusted onto the surface: 
Rice powder, forty parts; talcum powder, twenty parts; oleate of zinc, ten 
parts; subnitrate of bismuth, five parts. 
The balsam Peru is a remedy which has for years been much used in skin 
diseases, and generally proved efficacious, although disappointing now and then. 
It is best adapted to chronic eczema, but still is often of value in acute and 
recent cases, therefore might be given a trial in the following combination: 
Balsam Peru, one ounce; alcohol, one ounce; oxide of zinc, two drachms ; 
glycerin, three ounces. This can be applied, with a soft brush, twice daily. 
The same balsam may also be freely used, to great advantage in many cases, 
combined with sulphur, as follows: 
Balsam Peru, one ounce; powdered sulphur, three drachms; alcohol, one 
ounce ; glycerin, one ounce; water, three ounces. 
Or the balsam may be used with sulphur in ointment form, there being one 
ounce of each rubbed up with six ounces of vaselin or lard. 
If doubt exists as to whether a case is an eczema merely or one of sarcop- 
tic mange, this ointment would ‘be admirable, since quite as active in one 
disease as in the other. 
An application which is often successful in the early stages of eczema, and 
can be applied quite freely, several times daily, is the following: 
Salicylic acid, twenty grains; oxide of zinc, two drachms; powdered 
starch, two drachms; petrolatum, four drachms. 
Another application which usually acts exceedingly well is made as fol- 
lows: 
Lead plaster, one ounce; carbolic acid, twenty grains ; olive-oil, five ounces. 
To be applied twice daily. 
For use on house pets carbolic acid is objectionable to many because of its 
odor. Thymol can be employed instead, as follows: 
Thymol, three drachms; starch and oxide of zinc, of each six and one-half 
drachms; lanolin, one and one-half ounces. This salve may be freely applied 
to the affected parts. 
Resorcin is another popular substitute for carbolic acid, on account of 
absence of odor and danger of poisoning, and it generally proves highly effica- 
cious in eczema when combined as follows: 
Resorcin, sixty grains; carbonate of lead, eighty grains; diachylon oint- 
ment, four ounces. 
