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 . MANGE MITE (MAGNIFIED.)As given by Doctor Erasmus Wilson, SARCOPTES EQUI. What to do.—Wash the parts affected with hot water and strong soap,to remove all scabs and scurf; then, when dry, rub well in to all affectedspots the following mixture : No. 87. 4 Ounces sulphur, 2 Ounces oil of tar,% Pint linseed oil,Mix. V. Ringworm
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 . MANGE MITE (MAGNIFIED.)As given by Doctor Erasmus Wilson, SARCOPTES EQUI. What to do.—Wash the parts affected with hot water and strong soap,to remove all scabs and scurf; then, when dry, rub well in to all affectedspots the following mixture : No. 87. 4 Ounces sulphur, 2 Ounces oil of tar,% Pint 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, simp
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