ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF SOOT IN MANGE. 339 
[From the description given of this case, we are inclined to 
think it one of a fungoid nature, and that there will be found 
tumours on the tunica albuginea, and adhesions between it and 
the tunica vaginalis. It is a case in which we would recommend 
a trial of iodine as an ointment, applied to the surface, in the 
proportion of a drachm to an ounce of lard : it may also be of 
use to give some of the hydriodate of potass, internally, a drachm 
daily. The iodine, in the metallic state, is not of much use given 
internally; I have administered an ounce twice a-day, without 
apparent effect. Serving mares will rather do harm than 
good.—D.] 
ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF SOOT IN MANGE. 
By Dr. Bland. » 
The satisfactory results which have been obtained by the use 
of Creosote, in France, induced M. Bland, first physician to the 
hospital of Beaucaire, to substitute a preparation less difficult to 
prepare, and more economical. M. Bland thinks that he has 
discovered a succedaneurn for this in soot, a decoction or an 
ointment of which he has found exceedingly serviceable in 
inveterate cases of chronic herpetic eruptions, scald head, scurfy 
eruptions, ulcers of an unhealthy character, &c. 
For the decoction, two liandfuls of soot are boiled during 
half an hour in a pound of water, and the expressed fluid used 
as a lotion three or four times every day. In cases of herpes or 
scald head, the scab should first be removed by means of a 
poultice. To ulcers, it is applied by means of lint, saturated 
with it, and it is injected into inveterate fistulae. 
The formula for the ointment is as simple. A quantity of the 
soot, added little by little, is rubbed down with lard, until the 
mass assumes a deep brown colour. The ointment is either 
employed alone, or alternated with the lotion. 
Bulletin general de Tlierapeutique. 
[There is need enough for some apj)lication that can be 
depended upon in many cutaneous affections of the horse, 
dog, cattle, and sheep. The soot is worth trying. The creo¬ 
sote has been used by some English physicians, and particu¬ 
larly by Dr. Elliotson, with considerable success, in cases of 
cutaneous eruption.— Edit.] 
