Nevertheless, by dressing with soft soap the disease may be cured in a few months. The soap should remain on the skin for some hours and then be washed off, after which dressings of creolin, lysol, or chloral solution, etc., should be employed.
RINGWORM IN THE SHEEP, GOAT, AND PIG.
Little information regarding the dermatomycoses of the sheep, goat, and pig is available. Allowing for modifications due to the nature of the coat, the symptoms of recorded cases seem to indicate a close relationship with ringworm in the horse and ox.
In sheep suffering from ringworm, the wool is at first matted into small irregular tufts, which grow larger and more numerous. The coat appears felted together at various points. The neck, chest, shoulders and back exhibit crustaceous patches covered with branlike epidermal scales, and the animals suffer from marked pruritus, which causes them to rub and injure the coat.
Ringworm is very obstinate in the goat.
Two pigs described by Siedamgrotsky showed irregular, rounded patches, due to trichophyton, from 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter, reddish in tint, without exudation, but covered with abundant scales.
In the pig ringworm attacks the croup, sides of the chest, flanks and sides of the abdomen, but is commonest on the back and outside of the quarters. It forms red isolated patches, from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, covered with miliary vesicles, which in turn are replaced by brown crusts. The bristles remain unchanged, and are not shed or broken. There is no pruritus. Contagion from pig to pig occurs readily. The disease may be conveyed from oxen to pigs through the medium of litter removed from the cowsheds to the piggery.
Gerlach was unable to inoculate sheep or pigs with ringworm from the ox. Perroncito mentions a case of contagion from the ox to a lamb. Schindelka has seen sheep contract ringworm as a result of confinement to sheds previously occupied by oxen suffering from the disease.
Siedamgrotsky successfully inoculated two pigs and two sheep with ringworm from the horse and a goat with the bovine form of the disease. The two pigs inoculated two others by contact. Contagion from the goat to the ox was noted in the canton of Zürich in 1852.
Fuller particulars on these heads will be found in a series of articles by Neumann in the Revue Vétérinaire, January to June, 1905.