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mange,' so says Ede Mayliew. ' This is wrong ; and recipes 

 for the cure of this complaint are all nonsense, unless we 

 assume one medicine to be good for all diseases. Dogs 

 are very subject to mange ; that is, the animal system can- 

 not suffer without the derangement flying to the skin.' 



Mange is contagious, and all forms of it have their seat 

 internally, and take their origin in food and lodging. Too 

 close a kennel, too much meat food, too hard or too soft a 

 bed, may give rise to it. liecd mange is the work of a 

 parasite, and is of two sorts — one being the result of an 

 animal, and the other of a vegetable, parasite. 



The symptoms are : the dog appears dejected, and 

 scratches himself continually, especially when he is warm ; 

 the hair falls off in patches, and the skin is hot and in- 

 flamed ; a number of small pimples, like fleabites, make their 

 appearance, and after a time break and discharge and 

 scabs form. For treatment, Mayhew gives the following 

 dressing : Ung. resini as much as you please to take, sulph. 

 sub. sufiicient to make the resin ointment very thick, ol. 

 junip. enough to make it the proper consistency. Rub it 

 in one day and wash it off the next, and give the dog a tonic 

 for a week or a fortnight. A writer in ' Field, Farm, and 

 Fireside ' says : ' If a dog has true mange, either sarcoptic 

 or follicular, it should be washed with soft soap to raise 

 the cutis, then rubbed dry, and dressed with the following 

 lotion : Equal parts of spirits of turpentine, oil of tar, 

 and best olive oil. This should remain on for two days, 

 then washed again and dressed with 1 oz. sublimed sul- 

 phur, 1 dr. of mercurial ointment, 2 drs. of eucalyptus oil, 

 and 4 oz. of refined lard. The washing and dressing to 

 be repeated as often as may be necessary.' 



Spratts' cure for mange is also much to be recom- 

 mended, the treatment being to wash the dog with warm 

 water, using sulpholine soap, and when dry the cure for 

 mange rubbed into the affected parts twice a day for three 

 successive days, and care must be taken that the dressing 

 reaches the shin and not the hair only. On the fourth 

 day the dog to be again washed with the soap, and for two 



