130 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
quarters, spreading out in a circular form one or two inches in diameter, 
composed of pimples with raised edges; itching; scales and hair fall; 
pimples disappear, leaving nothing but scurf and loss of hair. Sometimes 
however it takes the form of pustules in limited patches, giving out a dis- 
charge which mats the hair; a crust then forms that is easily removed; small 
cavities are underneath, some containing pus. 
TREATMENT.—-Give bran-mashes at night, and arsenicum night and 
morning. In the dry form, apply daily a preparation of one half-drachm of 
carbolic acid to one ounce of glycerine. Inthe humid form, remove the 
scabs and dress the sores daily with a mixture of one drachm of liquor ar- 
senicalis to one ounce of water, giving rhus or arsenicum in a wine glass- 
ful of water three times daily. Promote the general health. 
WARTS. 
Warts are excrescences of varying size, spongy and readily bled, or hard 
and dry, occurring singly on the belly, sheath, and inside of the thigh, or 
in clusters on the face, nose, ears, and eyelids. They may have a broad 
base, or stand or hang ona stem. They are probably caused by deranged 
secretion of the skin. 
TREATMENT.—Remove any that are on a stem or small base by tying 
ligatures firmly around the base and leaving them until the warts fall off; 
the application of caustics is still better. If the wart be broad and moist, 
or if large and very “seedy,” and bleeds easily, scrape the surface raw 
with the thumb nail (if not already raw), moisten the finger, dip it in 
powdered arsenic, and put a slight layer on the raw surface, leaving it 
thus. The wart will usually drop off, after one application, in ten to twen- 
ty days, never growing again. If clusters of small warts appear on the 
face and about the eyes, wet the warts three times a day with thuja; if this 
does not succeed, use rhus in the same way. Sometimes the wart has no 
attachment to the skin other than a sac which incloses it. In such cases, 
cut the sac, squeeze out the wart, and the cut will heal at once. 
ERYSIPELAS. 
This is a spreading painful inflammation which frequently affects the 
underlying parts, or even the internal organs. It may be communicated 
by one animal to another. Among its predisposing causes are foul air or 
food, debility from diseases, as those of the liver and kidneys, absorption of 
poisonous matters through a sore, as cracked heel in the horse, green buck- 
wheat as food, sudden suppression of the secretions of the skin, unhealthy 
Digitized by Microsoft® 
