310 KENNEL DISEASES. 
Treat every new pimple, enlargement or suspicious spot in precisely the 
same way as soon as detected. 
The iodine solution will redden the skin, and in occasional instances in- 
flame it considerably, the effect being literally a burn. That, however, will 
speedily disappear. 
If to follicular mange, or to a doubtful but very suspicious eruption, the 
iodine solution has been applied for three days, then the balsam of Peru mixture 
for a week, and again the iodine solution for two days, yet no improvement has 
been made, but instead the pimples or enlargements have increased in size, 
the attendant redness is as deep as ever, and new spots of eruption have been 
appearing from time to time, —all of which show conclusively that the treatment 
was not effectual, —the iodine solution should now give place to a mixture of 
Canada balsam and carbolic acid, in equal parts. To every pimple, enlarge- 
ment or suspicious spot, this should be applied twice daily for two days. No 
further application of it should be made to the parts so treated, but, instead, 
on them the mixture of balsam Peru, alcohol, sulphur and glycerin, previously 
advised, should be used two or three times daily. 
At every point at which the eruption is found or threatens to appear, pre- 
cisely this treatment should be promptly applied. 
Whether or not it is proving of value will be evident at the end of a week, 
when, if it has acted well, the enlargements first treated will have begun to 
grow smaller, and the deep redness have faded considerably. 
If a gain is being made, the same treatment should be persisted in; and the 
hope of a cure in time can be reasonably indulged. If, however, the enlarge- 
ments are increasing in size, growing more numerous, and passing through the 
characteristic changes peculiar to the disease, as described in the foregoing, 
the following should be tried in conjunction with the balsam of Peru, alcohol, 
sulphur and glycerin: 
Creosote, one-half ounce; olive-oil, three and one-half ounces; solution of 
potassa, one ounce. 
The first two ingredients should be well mixed by vigorous shaking ; after 
which the potassa may be added. 
This should be applied, with a brush, to all diseased parts every fourth 
day, and meanwhile the use of the balsam Peru mixture be persisted in, two 
or three times daily, as before. 
If this treatment also fails, a physician should be called, and asked to inject 
into every tumor or enlargement a few drops of carbolic acid solution, such as 
he would use in malignant carbuncle. Or he might open all the enlargements, 
by two free cuts crossing each other, and after pressing out as much of their 
contents as possible, fill the cavities with a powder composed of equal parts of 
quicklime, carbonate of sodium and alum. This ought to destroy the fungoid 
growth. 
