382 HOKSE AILMENTS AND HOW TO DOCTOR THEM. 



MANGE. 



Mange is an infectious disease which attacks the horse's 

 skin in the form of a pimpled eruption, the skin on the parts 

 affected soon becoming stripped of hair and of a rough, puck- 

 ered, scurvy appearance, and Avhich has no tendency to get well 

 of itself, but goes on from bad to worse, reducing the animal to a 

 most loathsome object, until, finally, it dies. 



Symptoms. Its first appearance is usually on the upper 

 part of the neck, at the roots of the mane. It first shows itself 

 in small pimples, which soon break, the parts becoming very 

 itchy. The hair loosens and falls off, the skin become thick 

 and covered with patches of thick scurf ; in some cases a 

 watery fluid oozes out and a scab forms, which, after a while, 

 comes off leaving a large, rough, scaly spot. These blotches 

 continue to spread over the body. 



Treatment. Take a damp, soapy cloth and dip in fine sea 

 sand and give the mangy parts a good scrubbing and scouring 

 to expose the " acari," a living insect (like mites in cheese) ; 

 then wash off and dry with a cloth, and apply a mixture of 



Flour sulphur, . . . .8 ounces. 



Fish oil, . . . . .1 pint. 



Spirits of turpentine, . . .3 ounces. 



Rub well in with the hand; apply every third day until a cure is obtained. 



PROUD FLESH. 



Proud flesh is the name applied to hasty granulations in a 

 sore or wound, which presents a fungous appearance. 



Treatment. To remove I usually apply finely powdered 

 burnt alum. There may be other things as good or even" bet- 

 ter, but, having used this simple remedy in my practice for 

 many years with very satisfactory results, I do not hesitate to 



recommend it. 



PLEUROPNEUMONIA. 



This is an acute inflammation of the lungs and pleura. It 



may occur during either the progress of pleurisy or lung fever; 



or both structures may be attacked at the same time. This 



