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deposit accumulates upon various parts of the body. Creatures of other 
colors are not liable to so terrible a scourge; and seeing that the disease 
is in some manner connected with a change in the skin, probably some 
attention to the integumental covering might be of service. 
All use of the curry-comb should be forbidden. The dressing should 
be long continued, only with the brush; but it cannot, at the same time, 
be too gentle. Twice a week the body should be anointed with the 
following :— 
Amumal ely cern: 4-204 Se dh et Sook Soe Ge a, LOne parts 
Roseswater os gon & we Sk Boe e- « 4 woiparts: 
Mix. 
A brush should be moistened with the liquid, and the hair of the body 
should be rendered thoroughly damp, not wet, with the fluid. The after- 
dressing should consist in the long employment of the brush, so as to 
carry the glycerin from the hair and to lodge it upon the cuticle. 
Glycerin has the peculiar property of destroying scurf; therefore, if 
glycerin be used, the curry-comb may be dispensed with. It likewise 
renders soft and moist the cuticle, which invariably becomes harsh and 
dry with age. Acting thus, it will, in the human subject, so far restore 
the color to the hair as to conceal the presence of the gray or white ones 
common to advancing years. The effect on one animal argues favorably 
for its action in another direction. 
A dappled gray is perhaps the most beautiful covering in which boun- 
teous nature could invest a graceful body. Creatures so clothed are 
usually the favorites of their owners, as well as generally the pets of the 
stable. ‘Therefore the author may assert there are more than a few 
horse proprietors who would not bestow a thought upon any expense 
which could secure to them the services of their much-prized steeds. 
When melanosis threatens, a tumor no larger than an egg generally 
appears upon some part of the body. It may show on any locality. It 
has no fixed abode. It is hard to the touch, and apparently devoid of 
sensibility. In this state the disease may remain for one, or it may 
continue stationary for six, years. When the next and the more active 
stage commences, the tumor suddenly enlarges. It becomes soft in 
places, and will fluctuate under the pressure of the fingers. The horse, 
at the same time, grows slothful. The tumor, which previously seemed 
in no way to affect the animal, by its enlargement marks the departure 
of all spirit. This sluggishness rapidly increases till the poorest owner 
becomes dissatisfied with the perpetual use of the goad. 
The body, when opened, generally displays a condition which, from 
the outward signs, was far from expected. The internal organs are 
covered with tumors. Numberless morbid growths, of various dimen- 
