CHAPTER IV. 
THE SKIN. 
ERUPTIONS. 
may appear on different parts of the body, resulting from insufficient, 
excessive, or poor food; from constitutional disease; from unhealthy 
conditions generally. The sudden suppression of eruptions is often 
the cause of serious or fatal derangements of internal organs. 
TREATMENT.—If disease be the cause, remove it. For independent 
cases, give two grains of sulphur in the morning and as much arsenicum at 
night. Other valuable remedies are graphites, silicea, rhus and mercurius. 
CHAPS AND CRACKS. 
Chaps and cracks in the skin are due to walking on marshes, to the 
applications of strong medicines, and to internal disease. In the last case, 
the disease should itself be treated. 
TREATMENT.—In independent cases, that is, without internal disease, 
give arsenicum internally. Sepia will. be valuable if the skin is hard, dry 
and peeling off. Phosphoric acid is needed when the hardened edges of 
the cracks form wrinkles and ridges. If the pasture is marshy, change it. 
WARTS. 
Warts are tumors of varying size on different parts of the body, which 
need no description. 
TREATMENT.—M ist, encrusted, chapped warts, of large size and dis- 
gusting appearance, should be painted twice daily with strong tincture of 
thuja, a dilution of the same being given internally night and morning. 
Ulcerated warts are best treated with arsenicum. Small warts on the lips 
call for calcarea carbonica; and those which are painful and bleeding, for 
causticum. After a few doses of either of the above remedies, give sulphur, 
and if it fail resume the former medicine. See Warts in the Horse. 
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