Administer also a powerful alterative or two during the course of treatment, more particularly if the case is obstinate.[32]
Other practitioners recommend, with the administration of alteratives, the simple application of a solution of nitrate of silver, 30 grains to 1 ounce of water (distilled), applied every second day to the eruptions, until they are destroyed.
SURFEIT
is an eruption on the skin, and generally gives way, if attended to immediately on its appearance, by relaxing the bowels mildly, giving partly green food instead of hay and bran mashes; at the same time keep up the strength by feeding with the best oats and a little beans, alternately with the laxative treatment.
Should these means not suffice, or the disease become worse, consult a medical practitioner, who will probably administer diuretics; or if you cannot procure a professional man, give the following excellent tonic and alterative drink, recommended by Mr Mayhew:—
| Liquor arsenicalis, | 1 ounce. |
| Tincture of muriate of iron, | 1½ ” |
| Water, | 1 quart. |
Mix, and give daily half a pint for a dose.
Hidebound requires the same treatment as surfeit.
Mange is generally the result of insufficient food and other privations endured at grass, and of the neglect of the skin consequent on animals being turned out for a time to take care of themselves.
It is highly contagious, and is now admitted to be occasioned by an insect which is engendered in the foul coat.