. Diseases of dogs, their causes, symptoms, and treatment to which are added instructions in cases of injury and poisoning. Dogs. MANGE. the clear liquid, and make the quantity to five quarts with cold water. In using, all the affected parts should be freely wetted with it. Chronic cases of mange often take a month or two to cure. Spratts' Patent make a mange lotion somewhat similar to the above, but containing, I believe, other parasiticides, and I have found it con- venient and very effective. Another excellent preparation is: olive oil, 1 pint; oil of tar, 4oz. ; sulphur, 4oz. This dressing
. Diseases of dogs, their causes, symptoms, and treatment to which are added instructions in cases of injury and poisoning. Dogs. MANGE. the clear liquid, and make the quantity to five quarts with cold water. In using, all the affected parts should be freely wetted with it. Chronic cases of mange often take a month or two to cure. Spratts' Patent make a mange lotion somewhat similar to the above, but containing, I believe, other parasiticides, and I have found it con- venient and very effective. Another excellent preparation is: olive oil, 1 pint; oil of tar, 4oz. ; sulphur, 4oz. This dressing should remain on the skin for one week, and then be washed off with hot water and soap, to which has been added a Httle soda. It should be * repeated in twenty-four hours. The ointment of balsam of Peru has also been successfully employed. Sulphur is given as an internal remedy for mange, but it is not of any use. Whatever external appli- cation may be used for mange, the dog, or at least the affected parts, should first be well cleansed with soap and water, with the addition of a little of the carbonates of soda or potash, and afterwards well dried. The litter should also be frequently changed, while the walls of the kennel, and all posts and other places where the dog has rubbed, should be treated to Ume-wash containing a little carbolic acid. The floors, too, should be swilled with a weak solution of the acid or some other disin- fectant. Various forms of sulphur oiatment are in vogue as cures for mange, some of them combining with the flowers of sulphur powdered hellebore (a strong poison) made up with soft soap, whale or seal oUs, turpentine, etc., the whole forming a compound as disgusting to sight and smell as the worst cases of mange. Moreover, I have not found them one W Ovsl Sucker, bit more effective than a simple ointment made 9} J^° with 1 part of sulphur to 4 parts of lard. Follicular Mange is due to another mite (Demodex follieulorum. Fig. 13), very different i
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