Chronic Moist Eczema at the Mane and Tail. 487 



Symptoms. Following strangles the papules or vesicular eruption 

 may have passed leaving the skin thick, rigid, dry and scurfy. 

 The pigment may be increased and the hairs are usually shed in 

 connection with atrophj'^ of their follicles and rubbing of the 

 itching surface, so that the cuticle is smooth, glabrous and even 

 glistening. In implication of the lachrymal apparatus, there is 

 shedding of hairs beneath the eye or the wet matted condition of 

 those that remain. 



Treatment. In strangles use a lotion of silver nitrate or sodium 

 hyposulphite to destroy the local infection. In other cases treat 

 as for OKiinary eczema. 



CHRONIC MOIST ECZEMA (IMPETIGO) AT THE MANE 



AND TAII.. 



Fleshy neck, thick mane and tail, lymphatic constitution, profuse per- 

 spiration, lack of cleanliness, alkaline soaps, plethora, foul stable, pus mi- 

 crobes. Symptoms: itching or tenderness, shedding hair, thinning of 

 mane and tail, skin thickened, ridges and folds, tenderness, moisture, 

 crusts raise hairs from follicles, fcetor, sores and ulcers, matted hairs. 

 Treatment : remove general and local causes, cleanse, cool, pure stable, 

 clip, reduce grain ; cooling, laxative food, soothing or stimulating applica- 

 tions, zinc oxide, talc, olive oil and diachylon plaster, iodoform, silver ni- 

 trate, oil of cade, or of white birch, sulphur iodide, Canada balsam and sul- 

 phur, green soap, dusting powders, ointments. 



This condition is especially common in horses with a profusion 

 of long hairs in the main and tail, and in the heavy draught ani- 

 mal with a thick, fleshy neck. In such the skin is very sensitive 

 and when profuse perspiration soaks the skin, or concretes and 

 decomposes about the roots of the hairs, the local irritation 

 necessary to the production of the eruption is present. A lack 

 of careful grooming is therefore a common cause, yet soap left 

 in washing the mane or tail may be no less injurious. Plethora 

 has its influence in many cases, and the ammoniacal fumes from 

 a wooden stable saturated with excretions are not to be ignored.. 

 Finally in cases accompanied by pustular eruption, the pus 

 microbes must be recognized as factors. 



Symptoms. There may be marked itching or extreme tender- 

 ness of the the part affected or in the absence of both there may 



