TREATMENT OF ECZEMA IN DOGS. 
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hundred hatched out by the writer, the shortest time was nine 
days and the longest fourteen days, but in the majority of 
cases it required from nine to twelve days. While the larvas 
are thus developing the flies are constantly laying fresh eggs 
in the wounds, so that the young worms take the places of the 
matured ones, and thus keep up a constant and progressive 
loss of tissue. If the worms are not killed they eat constantly 
deeper, and often kill the animal. Sometimes the abdomen is 
opened and the bowels escape—as is especially liable in case 
of heifers spayed through the abdomen. At other times a 
tail is eaten off, or extensive caverns are made into the muscles. 
The treatment usually employed in these cases consists 
simply of killing the larvae with cresylic ointment, calomel, 
chloroform, or carbolic acid. The selection of the most 
suitable remedy will vary somewhat with the location, char 
acter and extent of the sores. In some cases bandages are 
useful. In others the sores can be filled with oakum and a few 
stitches taken. All treatment should be supplemented by 
daubing the margins of the wound with pine tar to ward off 
the fly. A vast number of cases can be prevented by keeping 
cattle free from common cattle ticks. 
THE TREATMENT OF ECZEMA IN DOGS. 
Translated from an article by Dr. Muller in Dev Thierwrzt, by F. W. Turner, 
D.Y.S., New York City. 
In the acute stages of eczema—especially in eczema vesicu- 
losum, pustulosum and madidans—far better results are ob¬ 
tained by simple treatment with dressing powder, consisting 
of zinc oxide, starch, talcum, boracic or salicylic acid, than from 
the so-much-vaunted preparations of tar and corrosive sub¬ 
limate. Even frequent washing with soap often does harm in 
acute cases. When the eruptions occur on such parts of the 
body where powder will not adhere, a mild ointment, consist¬ 
ing of zinc oxide, boracic or salicylic acid with a little water 
and lanoline, will often prove very beneficial. In chronic 
cases the treatment will naturally vary according to the stage 
of the disease, since it may be either scaly or moist, In moist 
