SARCOPTIC MANGE. 303 
For instance, with a dog suffering from eczema, it is scratch, scratch, under all 
conditions; but the victim of mange finds relief when in the cold open air; 
then let him be taken into the house and allowed to lay for a short time near a 
stove, and the itching nearly drives him frantic. 
While the real cause of sarcoptic mange is a parasite, uncleanliness certainly 
favors the same, and this fact should be in mind when treatment is undertaken. 
If satisfied that a dog is harboring the acari, he should be at once removed from 
his kennel, his bedding burned, and hot lime, generously impregnated with 
carbolic acid, plentifully used in every part, crack and crevice of his building. 
Thereafter, if he goes back to that kennel, the disinfectant process should be 
repeated as often as once each week until he has completely recovered. 
In instituting treatment, those remedies should be chosen which not only 
destroy the parasites and their eggs and cause the eruption they produce to 
disappear, but cure the eczema which the scratching has given rise to. 
Sulphur is the sovereign remedy, and it may be combined with other medi- 
cinal agents as the conditions indicate. 
The first step should be to wash thoroughly in strong suds made of carbolic 
soap ; and rinse the same off quickly with lukewarm water. 
In mange, sulphur is very generally used with lard, in the proportion of one 
part of the former to four of the latter ; and certainly this is quite the best form. 
It is possible, however, for sulphur to act well alone if the dry powder be 
faithfully rubbed into the hair over all parts of the body. But still it would 
scarcely be advisable to use it dry except on house-pets; and even in such 
cases the ointment should be promptly resorted to, and rubbed in twice daily, 
if with the powder a gain is not speedily apparent. 
A mixture that will immediately destroy the mange parasite is composed as 
follows : 
Carbonate of potassium, one ounce; powdered sulphur, two ounces; gly- 
cerin, six ounces. 
Another quite potent destroyer is the following mixture: 
Sperm-oil and oil of tar, of each ten drachms; and sulphocarbolate of 
sodium, one drachm. This should be applied warm, and for one or two hours 
the dog under treatment should be kept in a warm room. In the course of 
forty-eight hours let it be applied the second time. Allow it to remain on until 
the fifth or sixth day, and then wash the patient thoroughly, using soap quite 
liberally. If it be evident that a cure has not been effected, it will be advisable 
to try one of the other preparations herein recommended. 
The simple ointment of sulphur and lard is somewhat stimulating, and now 
and then proves irritating, and increases the inflammation of the skin. In which 
event the following is advisable: 
Balsam Peru, two ounces; powdered sulphur, one ounce; vaselin, two. 
ounces. 
