1 68 Veterinary Medicine. 



to live (colorless) steam from a hose. In the absence of either, 

 it may be heavilj- sprinkled with a mercuric chloride solution 

 (1:500), or one of chloride of lime (i lb. to 20 gallons). Next 

 day a lime whitewash should be applied to every part (walls, ceil- 

 ings, racks, mangers, and floor. The stall should be left empty 

 for at least one week. If a whole stable has been contaminated 

 every article within it should be similarly treated. Harness pegs 

 and saddle trees must be particularly attended to, corn bins, 

 troughs, buckets, forks, shovels, etc., being scraped, washed with 

 a formaldehyde solution (5:100) and allowed to dry before they 

 are again used. All harness should be taken to pieces, scrubbed 

 in warm water containing phenol or formaline (5:100), rinsed in 

 hot water, dried and oiled. Any parts made of cloth, and all 

 metal work, bits, curb chains, stirrups, spurs, should be steeped 

 in boiling water for five minutes. When the padding of harness 

 cannot be treated as above directed it may be ripped out and re- 

 placed. All combs, brushes, scrapers, rubbers, clothing, cir- 

 cingles, and halters should be kept for five minutes thoroughly 

 soaked in actively boiling water. The clothing of the attendants, 

 their combs and brushes should be similarly dealt with. The poles 

 and shafts of carriages should be dressed with mercuric chloride. 



Horses that occupied the stalls to the right and left of the 

 affected one, are to be suspected, treated with one of the dressings 

 above referred to and kept in quarantine for a week. 



When a horse with scabies has been in a stable, public or 

 private, in a sale-stable, horse show, stockyards, car, steamboat, 

 ferry boat, or other vehicle, these places and articles should be 

 closed or disused until treated by the above or some other 

 thorough method of purification. Whenever a succession of 

 cases of scabies have been carried along a given line of travel, the 

 animals coming by such line, should be held in quarantine and 

 treated until the vehicles and any feeding places or yards used on 

 it, are thoroughly treated. Exception may be made of horses 

 arriving in cars, etc. , that have been newly cleaned and white- 

 washed, and when evidence is furnished that they have not been 

 disembarked at suspected places on the way. For the same 

 reason the owner or ciistodian of any horse arriving by rail or 

 boat, or brought to any sales-stable, fair, market or show, and 

 which is suffering from any skin disease, should be under obliga- 



