MANGE. 
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doing to the poor animals, and rendering them weak and 
useless for life. Their limited supply of food weakens all 
their digestive functions, which no after feeding can possibly 
restore. 
It has often been found that a severe surfeit which has 
been neglected ends in mange. Contagion is also a fruitful 
cause of the complaint, as there is no malady with which 
the horse is afflicted more highly contagious than this. It 
appears to be communicated by the very slightest contact; 
and if it breaks out in a stable where there are other 
horses, generally attacks them all, if they are not speedily 
removed. Grooms should be very careful not to use the 
same currycomb to a diseased and to a healthy horse indis¬ 
criminately, neither should the same brush be used. 
Remedies. —Bleeding is serviceable in mange, that is, if it 
proceeds from surfeit, contagion, or other circumstances, 
when the animal is in good condition ; but if it is the 
result of poverty, or if the animal is low in flesh, it must 
on no account be resorted to, as it will rather increase than 
diminish the complaint. Physic is also indispensably neces¬ 
sary. It has been found that mercury is a useful medicine 
in mange; although internal remedies alone will never 
remove the complaint : an external application must be 
had recourse to. 
If mange is not severe in its earlier stages, the following 
will generally remove the complaint:— 
Barbadoes aloes . 1-^ drachm, 
Calomel . . .1 drachm; 
to be given in the form of a ball, mixed with a little 
lintseed-meal and treacle. Afterwards the skin of the 
animal must be rubbed with the following composi¬ 
tion :— 
