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TREATMENT OF ITCH AND MANGE. 
A mixture of soft soap and common salt, in the pro- 
portion of eight ounces of the former to four ounces of the 
latter, has been successful resorted to by Dr. Schubert, both 
in hospital and private practice, for itch. The two are dis- 
solved in a quart of warm water, and the solution applied 
night and morning, for three or four days. The skin is after- 
wards well cleansed in a bath of soap and water. — Medicin . 
Zeitung. 
[As true Mange has its cause in the existence of a para- 
site, in common with itch, the above remedy may, perhaps, 
be found available for the lower animals ; especially in mild 
attacks.] 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals. 
POISONING OF SHEEP-DOGS WITH STRYCHNINE. 
By Stevenson Macadam, Ph. D., PhR.S.E. 
For some time back the tenants on the Kinnoull estates, 
in the neighbourhood of Perth, have suffered severely from 
the loss of their well-trained sheep-dogs, which were sup- 
posed to be destroyed by poison. At the latter end of 
February the farmers and others interested in the matter, 
held a public meeting in Perth, and passed a series of re- 
solutions which involved immediate action, with a view, if 
possible, of tracing the evil to its source. In the first place, 
it was resolved that the stomachs of the dogs which died 
suddenly, and the remains of the rabbits which were found 
lying beside them in the fields, should be placed in my hands 
for chemical examination, in order to ascertain if the dogs 
really had been poisoned. Accordingly, in the beginning of 
March, I received a hamper, containing, amongst other 
animal matter, the stomach and contents of a dog, and a 
considerable piece of a rabbit, part of which the dog had 
been observed to partake of immediately prior to its death. 
The contents of the stomach consisted mainly of oatmeal 
porridge, accompanied by about three ounces of the muscle 
