378 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICIN# AND SURGERY. 
No. 29. Unslaked lime..........2--e0ee-ee+ 1 Ib. 
Flour of sulphur.........00.ceeseee- 2 lbs. 
Water. ccecscccccccsessscvacsssces 12 pte. 
Pnt these ingredients in a stone jar, set it on the stove, or in 
a regular water-bath, until] it boils. During the interval, the 
mixture must be constantly stirred, both in view of insuring a 
complete mixture, and of keeping the lime and sulphur from de- 
positing in the bottom of the jar; for, should this occur, the jar 
will crack. The mixture must be stirred with a wooden spatula 
or glass rod. Keep the mixture boiling for about ten or fifteen 
minutes; then set it aside for twelve hours, at the end of which 
time pour off the clear liquor, bottle tightly, and cork the bottles, 
These should be put away in a dark closet, as the mixture soon 
decomposes when exposed to the sun’s rays. Tnis remedy will 
cure the itch on horses and cattle. It is, also, a sure cure when 
used on man. It is not adapted to the cure of the malady in 
sheep, as the sulphur is supposed to be injurious to wool. The 
only objection to its use is, that it has a very unpleasant odor— 
smells like sulphureted hydrogen. Before applying this mixture, 
the animal should be thoroughly washed with warm water and 
common brown soap; then wipe the animal dry, and apply the 
sulphur mixture, by means of a sponge. One application, if 
properly applied, will usually suffice to kiil the parasites. Shoald 
it fail in the first instance, a reapplication will do no harm, as 
the preparation is perfectly inocuous. 
Scabies is to be treated in the same manner; in fact, all diseases 
of the skin, supposed to be dependent on the presence of parasites 
are to be treated after this fashion. GERLACH, of the Royal Ve 
terinary School of Berlin, has made a series of experiments with 
various remedies for the destruction of the itch parasite, and the 
following table shows the result of his labors: 
