FOLLICULAR MANGE: 309 
The hairs having been extracted, the patient should be thoroughly drenched 
all over with benzin, and this operation repeated twice each week thereafter. 
In recent cases, in which the eruption has existed but for a short time and 
is limited to a few spots, a preparation composed of equal parts of the tincture 
of iodine, carbolic acid and hydrate of chloral has acted exceedingly well. It 
penetrates deeply into the tissues of the skin, destroying all parasites and all 
forms of micro-organisms which it reaches; and if properly used in an early 
stage, it would almost always, if not invariably, prevent the spread of diseases 
caused by them, overcome the attendant inflammations, and effect speedy cures. 
Chronic thickening of the skin left by such inflammations would also quickly 
disappear under its use; and there is no application which proves as beneficial 
as this in hastening the return of hair to spots from which it has fallen in con- 
sequence of parasitical diseases. 
It is therefore advisable to commence treatment of follicular mange, also all 
doubtful if suspicious cases, with this remedy, and to apply the same, with a 
camel’s-hair brush, to every enlargement or threatening spot. For three days 
one application daily should be the rule. Thereafter for one week it ought 
not be applied to the parts that have had three applications, but on every new 
spot of eruption, or where the eruption seems about to appear, it should be at 
once conscientiously used. 
During the week subsequent to the third application of the iodine solution, 
the following should be applied, two or three times daily, to and around the 
spots that have been treated with that solution : 
Balsam Peru and alcohol, of each one ounce and one-half; flowers of sul- 
phur, one-half an ounce; glycerin, five ounces. 
Whether or not the solution of iodine, carbolic acid and chloral has acted 
well will be evident at the end of a week, for the suspicious enlargements and 
spots will either have grown larger and become more inflamed, or have lessened 
in size and their deep redness greatly faded. 
If a gain has been made, unless it is plainly evident that the eruption 
treated is rapidly disappearing, it will be advisable at the end of the week to 
again apply the iodine solution once daily for two days; then return to the 
mixture of balsam Peru, alcohol, sulphur and glycerin; and persist in that 
until a cure has been effected. 
That there may be no mistake, this method of treatment is again briefly 
defined : 
To every pimple, suspicious enlargement or spot, apply the solution of io- 
dine, carbolic acid and chloral every day for three days. Thenon the places 
so treated, instead of this solution, use the mixture of balsam Peru, alcohol, 
sulphur and glycerin. At the end of a week, unless there has been very great 
improvement, to the same spots again apply the iodine solution once daily for 
two days, and, as before, follow it with the balsam Peru mixture. 
