116 DISEASES OF CATS 



epithelium are very characteristic of mange in 

 the cat, the skin becoming wrinkled and cov- 

 ered with a thick coating of scabs. The per- 

 sistent and intense pruritis gives the animal no 

 rest, and it gradually loses in condition, becom- 

 ing debilitated and sometimes marasmic. 



Treatment. — ^Treament is difficult and in ad- 

 vanced cases none too satisfactory, especially 

 as the predilection seat of the parasite is the 

 facCj nose, lips, around the eyes, chest, ^egs and 

 claws. From these regions it may, of course, 

 involve the whole body. The hair should be 

 clipped and the scabs removed, as far as possi- 

 ble, by washing with an alkaline solution and 

 soft soap. A five per cent oinment of salicylic 

 acid should then be rubbed in very thoroughly 

 to remove the epithelium, followed by daily 

 inunctions of sulphur ointment, a useful com- 

 bination being sulphur 1, potassium carbonate 

 ^, lanolin 4. 



Around the eyes and on the eyelids chinosol 

 solution, l/SOO, or balsam of Peru, one part, 

 lanolin eight parts, may be used. The inunc- 

 tions should be repeated every three days and 

 the treatment persisted in until the growth of 

 new hair shows the disease to be controlled. It 

 is often an advantage in protracted cases to 

 change the applications occasionally from oily 

 dressings to watery, and vice versa. 



