304 KENNEL DISEASES. 
In preparations designed for application in sarcoptic mange the sublimed 
sulphur, known also as the flowers of sulphur, is sometimes used. This is 
scarcely more than powdered brimstone, and the product of sublimation of 
crude or rough sulphur. Precipitated sulphur, or as generally termed the milk 
of sulphur, is a purer form of sulphur, and that commonly chosen by druggists 
when simply powdered sulphur is designated. The so-called liver of sulphur, 
of liver-brown color, is the sulphurated potassa, consisting of sublimed sulphur, 
one part, and carbonate of potassium, two parts. This is much stronger than 
sulphur proper, and when applied to the skin too freely is quite likely to cause 
irritation, and possibly inflammation. It is even more destructive to the mange 
insect than sulphur alone, and may be used if eczema has not been set up, or 
the skin much wounded by biting or scratching. 
An inexpensive and very efficacious preparation may be made as follows: 
Lard oil, one pint; finely powdered liver of sulphur, two ounces; oil of tar, 
two ounces. 
Mix its ingredients thoroughly ; and rub this well into the skin. Until it 
has dried on, the patient must be kept warm and out of draughts. Repeat the 
application in two days, taking the same precautions against cold. Then, in 
the course of a day, wash well, using a strong soap, and completely dry the 
coat with towels. 
In every case supposed to be of mange, while a dog is under treatment, his 
bedding having been first burned, his kennel should be thoroughly disinfected 
by means of corrosive sublimate solution, 1 to 3,000, or carbolic acid, burning 
sulphur, or the like. 
Naphthol is also a bitter enemy to the mange parasite, and may be applied 
with vaselin, two drachms of the former to three ounces of the latter. Or if 
the trouble has existed for several weeks, and the skin is considerably thickened 
without being greatly inflamed, the following would be better : 
Naphthol, three drachms; green soap, one ounce; lard, three ounces. 
In the following ointment four of the most potent parasiticides are combined : 
Beta-naphthol, one drachm ; precipitated sulphur, two drachms; storax and 
powdered pyrethrum, of each six drachms; lard, three ounces. 
An agreeable preparation which is in some degree destructive to the mange 
insect, and might possibly prove effectual in mild cases of only recent occur- 
rence, is the tincture of benzoin. On toys and small pets, with which, for 
obvious reasons, only a iimited number of remedies can be used without render- 
ing them so objectionable that they must be excluded from the living-roéms, 
this might be tried, and applied with free hand twice daily; but unless a de- 
cided gain were appreciable in the course of three or four days, a more power- 
ful agent should employed. 
Where ointments are used they should be rubbed in vigorously and freely 
twice daily, for two days, the applications being made to all parts, and even to 
