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shawl has remained in the basket, while the 
tenant had his bath. The flea, the louse, the 
mange mite, the vegetable fungus, which causes 
ringworm, can each and all play a waiting game, 
and slow down or perform feats of fasting 
worthy of the greatest of fakirs, or multiply 
very rapidly in more prosperous circumstances. 
This adaptability no doubt accounts for their 
survival when every man’s hand has been against 
them for ages. 
The confusion of mange and eczema in some 
dogs is excusable unless, as we have said, the 
microscope is employed to solve the doubt. 
When patches come up on the thighs, under the 
arms, and in the semi-nude portions show as 
vesicles, break and form a scab, there is very 
little risk of mistaking-the disease for anything 
else. If similar round or oval sores occur upon 
the back they often run on to a pustular con¬ 
dition. because the broken vesicles leave an open 
sore for dirt containing the pyogenic _ organism, 
or exciting to suppuration by the violence of 
the patient, who literally tears his skin with his 
hind feet in futile efforts to relieve the itching. 
These are so defined (although _ secondary 
patches may occur) that the novice is not very 
likely to mistake them for mange. No, where 
the dog owner goes astray is over those chronic 
itching elbows and hocks which are better and 
worse at intervals. Recurrent eczema is an at¬ 
tractive term which he has been content to adopt. 
The periods of comparative quiescence, or re¬ 
sponse to some remedy, help to keep up the idea 
of eczema, and besides, it does not spread like 
mange, the owner will tell us, if a doubt is cast 
upon his long cherished diagnosis. Now if these 
chronic cases of irritated elbows and hocks are 
carefully examined we find that the cap of the 
elbow and the sides of the hock joint are thick¬ 
ened, the skin is hard, dense, insensitive and 
bald. In the layers of this tumefied integument 
lurk the breeding stock. They raid the adjacent 
country in favorable seasons, but never make 
any permanent conquests, because the dog gets 
dressed with somebody’s nostrum, which is suffi¬ 
ciently destructive to slay all the advanced 
parties, but too mild to penetrate the citadel 
long held and strongly fortified by heaps of 
epithelium or cuticle piled up and glued together. 
There are many dogs in which a true eczema¬ 
tous eruption occurs upon the elbows and hocks, 
and is provoked by the irritation induced by 
habitually lying upon them. This is particularly 
liable to happen to- dogs bedded on pine saw¬ 
dust. It may keep the fleas away, but it creates 
sores upon the dog. Not always as an eruption 
of vesicles is this seen, but as a red area, or 
stained portion of hair if a light colored dog, 
and an abrasion which fails to heal over, and 
resembles the old collar and harness galls of 
horses. True eczema occurring about the thin 
skin of the chest immediately behind the elbow 
and down the thighs to the hock, after a time 
involves the elbow joint region and that of the 
hock by extension or invasion, and when crusts 
and scabs and dirt have all settled into a chronic 
state of matted misery to the patient, the ama¬ 
teur may well be confused as to the real nature 
of the disease. There was a learned (?) pro¬ 
fessor who used to say that all skin diseases 
were mange or eczema, and one of his disciples, 
who claimed to cure every skin disease by the 
same remedy, met with extraordinary success as 
a dog doctor. The remedy consisted of equal 
parts of oil of tar, spirit of turpentine and olive 
oil, and this was very liberally applied every 
fourth day with a bath between. The modus 
operandi may be described as removing the sur¬ 
face cuticle, and thereby letting in a compound 
which will kill all the mange tribe. The wash¬ 
ing between cleared away debris and laid bare 
pregnant females or recently hatched eggs. The 
scalding was pretty severe, but effectual in break¬ 
ing down the accumulations we have described 
as taking place on elbow point and hock sides. 
As a remedy for mange it was effectual. As a 
remedy for eczema of the chronic kind it just 
had the effect of converting the chronic into the 
acute,, and getting it over in a few days after 
which desquamation and a renewed surface left 
the patient cured for the time being. We need 
not copy too closely the remedy used so success¬ 
fully, but we may "take to heart the fact that we 
