Treatment.—Remove the animal from its companions to a warm place, and keep it on thin gruel. Give a tea-spoonful of sulphur daily, together with a drink of bittersweet tea. The object is to invite action to the surface, and maintain it there. If the eruption does not reappear on the surface, rub it with the following liniment:—
Take one ounce of oil of cedar; dissolve in a wine-glass of alcohol; then add half a pint of new rum and a tea-spoonful of sulphur.
Almost all the diseases of the skin may be treated in the same manner.
OPHTHALMIA.
Causes.—Sudden changes in temperature, unclean sties, want of pure air, and imperfect light.
Treatment.—Keep the animal on thin gruel, and allow two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar per day. Wash the eyes with an infusion of marshmallows, until a cure is effected.
VERMIN.
Some animals are covered with vermin, which even pierce the skin, and sometimes come out by the mouth, nose, and eyes.