_Symptoms_: Very often dogs, especially those kept in kennels, suffer from a very scaly or scurfy condition of the edges of the flaps of the ears, which causes the hair to fall off, and the dog to shake his head frequently. _Treatment_: Apply a little of the following dressing to the parts once or twice a day. This will remove the scurfiness, and stimulate the growth of the hair. Once a week wash the ears thoroughly with Cook’s 3% mercurial soap. _Recipe: The Dressing_: Resorcin, 1 scruple. Cyllin, 15 minims. Almond Oil, 1 ounce. Mix. =Ecthyma=: _Symptoms_: A skin disease, characterised by the formation of a number of small pustules, which the dog generally breaks by licking or scratching, and a running sore is produced. _Treatment_: The part should be cleaned with a weak solution of Pearson’s disinfectant fluid, or with a teaspoonful boracic acid in half a pint of water, then gently dried with a soft cloth, and the following lotion applied and repeated often:— _Recipe_: Prepared Chalk, 2 ounces. Wright’s Solution Coal Tar, ½ ounce. Lime Water to 8 ounces. Well shake before using. Treat dog for worms, and give following pills:— _Recipe_: Arsenious Acid, ½ grain. Reduced Iron, 40 grains. Sulphate Quinine, 12 grains. Extract Gentian, _q.s._ Mix. Divide into 12, 24, 36, or 48 pills.[1] One to be given twice a day, after food. Dog suffering from Ecthyma should be given some meat every day mixed with other food. =Eczema=: A non-contagious skin disease. _Symptoms_: Skin irritable; dog frequently scratching, also licking and biting himself. Clusters of fine vesicles appear at different parts; the skin afterwards becomes dry and scaly, unless the dog by constantly licking himself makes the parts sore and raw. Parts principally attacked around eyes, the lips, outside and inside of ears, along top of back, root of tail; but any part may become affected. _Treatment_: Bathe affected parts often with following lotion:— _Recipe_: Wright’s Solution Coal Tar, 1 ounce. Goulard’s Extract of Lead, 1 drachm. Glycerine Boracis, 1 ounce. Distilled or Rain Water to 8 ounces. Mix. Or, apply following ointment twice a day:— _Recipe_: Resorcin, 1 scruple. Cieolin, 20 minims. Almond Oil, 1 drachm. Lanoline, 1 ounce. Mix. Apply night and morning. When skin very sore and raw, dust the affected places often with following powder:— Best Powdered Starch, 4 parts. Boracic Acid Powder, 1 part. Mix. When the eczema is general—that is, more or less all over the dog—give every four days a bath in Pearson’s disinfectant fluid diluted eighty times with tepid water; that is, four tablespoonfuls to a gallon of water. Internal Remedies.—Treat for worms, and give the following powders:—