On neck and dewlap; Causes: anæmia, debility, spoiled food,
starvation, constitutional predisposition. Symptoms: shedding hair and
scales without skin thickening, or itching. Treatment: green soap,
tar, creolin, lysol, naphthalin, etc. Alkaline lotions: generally
nutritive, succulent food, bitters, iron, arsenic, etc.
This is noticed especially on the neck and dewlap in connection with
anæmia, low condition, unsuitable, innutritious and spoiled fodder and a
constitutional predisposition. It has the same general characters as in
the horse, an excessive production of dandruff or dry scales without any
marked change in the thickness of the skin or in its circulation.
Treatment consists in the application of green soap, pure or medicated,
with tar, creolin, lysol, or other empyreumatic product. Lotions of
carbonate or bicarbonate of potash are often effective. Any disorder of
digestion, or of the urinary or hepatic functions, or of general
nutrition should be corrected, and in most cases, a course of bitters,
with iron and arsenic is desirable. A good, indoor hygiene or a run on
succulent grass in the open air may be resorted to with benefit.