ECZEMA EPIZOOTICA. 
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symptoms. The treatment consisted in giving some little 
aperient medicine and applying unguenturn simplex to the 
affected skin; diet, bread and milk. In the course of a few 
days desquamation took place, and the dog was convalescent. 
My object in writing to you at this time is to report a 
well-marked case of eczema in the horse. To me, and, as 
far as I am able to ascertain, to the profession generally, it 
is a singular case. Although I have been surrounded by 
the disease, as it were, for more than twenty years, it is the 
first case that I have witnessed in the equine class of animals; 
indeed, I had thought that they were altogether exempt from 
this disease. 
The history of the case runs thus, as near as I am able to 
describe it: 
On the 21st day of June last I was requested to attend a 
five-year old chestnut mare, of the nag breed, about six miles 
from my residence, the property of Mr. John Vines, who is 
an extensive grazier, keeping a large dairy of cows. 
I was informed that many of the cows were at this time 
suffering from eczema, and had been so for some time past, 
and as they fell ill with the disease they were taken from 
their companions and placed in a meadow in which the mare 
was kept; and on the day previous to my visit the mare was 
noticed to be standing in the field more quiet than she was 
usually accustomed to do, and a bleached appearance was 
around the tops of her hoofs. 
On my visit I found her to be fair in condition, but off 
her appetite, looking empty, pulse about 60 in the minute; 
disinclination to move; a discharge issued from around the 
tops of all her feet; the visible mucous membranes were 
injected, having rather a peculiar appearance, very much 
resembling fresh-cut raw beef; I could discover no blisters 
within the lips, or on the tongue, but they existed thickly 
over the nose and in front of the head, extending to the ears ; 
the bowels were slightly constipated. 
I directed her to be placed in a convenient loose stable, to 
have a mild aperient, applied solution of Cupri Sulphat. to 
the feet, and ordered her to be liberally fed on such food as 
she would partake of. 
I saw her again on the 24th, and found very little altera¬ 
tion to have taken place. She refuses all food except a little 
hay or cut grass. Those cuticular excrescences situated at 
the inside of the knees and hocks had fallen off, and an 
ichorous discharge issued from the exposed surfaces. 
On the 26th there was a restless and anxious appearance 
about her; the pulse had increased to nearly 70 in the minute; 
