This also affects the young and is characterized by the successive
appearance of vesicles, pustules and scabs or crusts. Friedberger and
Fröhner associate it with debility from youth, disease or neglect, from
articular rheumatism, rachitism, hog cholera, etc., but also as a result
of lying on manure, and the accumulation of sebaceous matter and filth
of all kinds on the skin.
_Symptoms._ Among the symptoms of general disorder are dullness,
inappetence, prostration and slight fever. There is red eruption with
vesicles and even pustules on the early rupture of which the discharge
concretes into a black pitchy layer. It may be at first most marked on
the ventral aspect of the body, but usually extends to the whole
integument.
_Treatment._ Where it is not dependent on some grave internal disorder,
this commonly yields to soapy washes, generous food and a clean pen.