Eczema

Eczema is the cutaneous manifestation of a constitutional trouble of a gouty nature. Eczema consists of a hyperemia of the skin, followed by exudation and desquamation of the cuticle. The symptoms are rough, dry hairs which become brittle and break off, an oily-appearing exudation around the roots of the hairs, and dry scabs which, as they peel off, leave little ulcerated surfaces. This eruption takes place principally along the line of the back and at the root of the tail, but in some more severe cases may extend to the sides of the body, legs, neck, and face. Eczema is sometimes called the "red mange," but is to be distinguished from the mange, which is a parasitic disease, the lesions of which appear on the under surface of the body and in the softer skin of the inside of the thighs.

Milk-Fever

When an entire litter of kittens has been removed from the mother at once, the accumulation of milk swells the mammary glands, and, if not relieved, cakes, and produces a local inflammation in this organ, which ends with the formation of abscesses, and is excessively painful. The irritation of this mammitis, as the local trouble is called, produces a considerable amount of fever, attended with vomiting and sometimes diarrhoea. A wound or other injury to the mammary glands of a cat who is nursing her young may produce the same disease.

Milk-fever is to be treated with the ordinary remedies for fever, and a local application to the mammary glands of belladona ointment, alone, or mixed with mercurial ointment.