Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . linseed oil,Mix. V. is a fungous, vegetable parasitic growth, scientifically known astricophyton tonsurans. It is contagious, and attacks all classes of ani-mals, yet sometimes arises spontaneously from poverty and filth. It manifests itself by a round])ald spot, scaly and elevatedinside the ring, which is reda
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . linseed oil,Mix. V. is a fungous, vegetable parasitic growth, scientifically known astricophyton tonsurans. It is contagious, and attacks all classes of ani-mals, yet sometimes arises spontaneously from poverty and filth. It manifests itself by a round])ald spot, scaly and elevatedinside the ring, which is redand inflamed. It begins in asmall pimple-like sore, whichspreads very fast, increasingin size from day to day, andnew sores forming on otherparts of the body. The ringis surrounded by a row of broken, bristly hairs, which split, and becomefilled with spore* of the fungus ; and as fast as one row of hairs is dis-posed of another row is attacked. Ringworm is, at first, simply a disfigurement, but it should, on noaccount, be neglected. If allowed to run on, it becomes very trouble-some. The scurfy skin of ringworm is easy of recognition, the particlesof scurf coming off in little flakes or scales, which have been aptly com-pared to the coarser, husky portions of TEST FOR MANGE. 532 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. There is another form of ringworm called favus. It shows the same general ap-pearance of the other, except that a scab forms in the center, after the ring hasreceded. What to do.—Wash with soap and water; when dry, paint with tincture of iodineor the following: 40 Grains corrosive sublimate,No. 1 Pint i Repeat once a day till cured.
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