When dogs are affected with blotch, (Acute Eczema), inflamed patches are observed on various parts of the body; these discharge thin mattery fluid, which forms a scab, matting the hair together, which in a few days falls off, leaving bare patches moist from the exuded fluid. These will appear in a night, and need cause no alarm whatever. Use for a few days, 'till the spots are dried up, a powder of equal parts of Boric Acid, bismuth sub nit, and oxide of zinc. Dust this well in on the inflamed patches twice a day. After dried up then use Eberhart's skin remedy twice a day, and it will bring the hair back in due time.

Here is a good lotion that you can have made if you haven't my skin remedy on hand:

Lotion For Blotch

Take carbolic acid and glycerine (British Pharmacopoeia), 1 oz.; laudanum, 2 oz.; water, 1 1/2 pts.; carbonate of potash, 2 drs. It should be applied over the whole surface of the skin affected twice a day.

A bath or two, except in cold weather, will facilitate a cure, using Eberhart's, or some good dog soap, warm water to which add a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and the dog afterwards very carefully dried.

Of course, the kennel must be examined, any defective sanitary arrangements altered, and thorough cleanliness insisted on. The dog's bedding should be changed at least every other day, and the proper use of disinfectants in and about the kennel are of great use.