388 LIST OP MEDICINES. 



if practicable, particularly in cold weather, or cold may be 

 taken in it, and the original difficulty only aggravated. 



GENTIAN The best vegetable tonic in use. Dose from 1 

 to 2 drachms. 



GIN Given in doses of half a teaspoonful to a teaspoonful 

 in warm milk to chilled lambs, with admirable effect. ' I 

 omitted to mention, when speaking of the mode of procuring 

 the adoption of a foster lamb, that gin rubbed on the nose of 

 the ewe and sprinkled over the lamb, promotes that object. 



GINGEK. A highly useful cordial and stomachic, given 

 with most aperient medicines to prevent griping. Dose from 

 half a drachm to two drachms. 



HAKTSHOBN. See Ammonia. 



INJECTIONS. These are of the utmost importance to 

 relieve constipation in lambs. For their composition, and the 

 mode of administering them, see page 150. 



IODINE. The hydriodate of potash in the proportion of 

 one part to seven or eight parts, by weight, of lard, consti- 

 tutes an ointment which is a powerful stimulant to the 

 absorbing vessels, and therefore is an excellent application to 

 glandular swellings, or to indurated tumors. It is a good 

 application to swelled udder, (garget,) or to enlarged thyroid 

 glands. (See Goitre and Garget.) 



LARD A gentle purgative in doses of two ounces. The 

 basis of most ointments, and applied externally in almost 

 every case as an emollient and lubricant in the place of oils. 



LAUDANUM. See Opium. 



LEAD (Acetate or Sugar of Lead) Mixed with other 

 ingredients to form caustic applications in hoof -rot. 



LEAD (White) Is used in cooling and drying ointment. 



LIME (Carbonate of) See Chalk. 



LIME (Chloride of) Is a powerful disinfectant and 

 antiseptic. It is used to disinfect and purify stables, &c., in 

 which contagious diseases have occurred, and to clean the 

 foot and remove stench in the worst stages of hoof -rot. It 

 is administered internally for hoove. (See Hoove.) 



LINSEED Or flax-seed, is invaluable as an emollient 

 poultice. It forms an excellent gruel for animals during 

 illness. 



