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meût). Squamous eczema may also be combated with tar liniment 

 or cresol, or by these agents associated with alcohol (1 : 10-20) and 

 by green soap. Among the other agents we have used with advan- 

 tage chrysarobin (chrysarobin 1-5 grammes, ungueutum paraffini 

 20 grammes) oxynaphthalin (1 : 10) as well as natural ichthyol. 



The series of medicaments used to combat eczema in the dog is 

 far from beiug exhausted (naphthol, anthrarobin, resorcin, naph- 

 thalin, oxynaphtholic acid, etc.). The enumeration of the many 

 formulae would be fastidious and useless. 



No matter which agent may be used, it is advisable to cut the 

 hair before applying it. The region which has been subjected to 

 friction must be covered with a bandage, in order to prevent the 

 dogs from licking themselves (poisoning). 



Internally, it is customary to use arsenous acid for chronic ecze- 

 matous processes — Fowler's solution, administered for several weeks 

 at a time, in a dose of 5 to 10 drops per day. We have tried it quite 

 frequently, but without much success. But in the moist forms of 

 eczema purgatives will be of excellent service in the beginning of 

 the treatment ; desiccation of the blotches is very rapidly produced 

 under their influence. Dietetic means (suppression of meat, etc.) 

 have not, by far, the importance generally attributed to them; they 

 have never given us satisfactory results. 



[The first indication in the treatment of eczema is to reduce the 

 food of the patients and to increase their exercise : internally, the 

 administration of magnesii sulphas in sufficiently large dose to 

 produce a laxative effect upon the bowels, giving one dose every 

 alternate day for two or three weeks, will alone cure many cases, 

 especially those that are of but a few weeks' or months' standing. 

 For the last ten years this has been my only treatment for eczema- 

 tous diseases of a mild type. When the affection is of long stand- 

 ing and more or less extensive, I have invariably associated with 

 this treatment a local application of the iodide of sulphur ointment 

 made according to the following formula r 



5^. — Iodide of sulphur 4 grammes. 



Sulphur subliraatum 28 " 



Oleum morrhuae ....... 28 " 



M. et ft. unguentum, 



Sig. — One application, repeated if necessary after ten days. 



This may be modified by changing the cod-liver for equal parts 

 of cosmoline and lanolin. I have never taken any precaution to 



