258 IRON SULPHATE 



poor straw fodder. Along with concentrated, good food, 

 the iron salt in many such cases is advantageously conjoined 

 or alternated with quinine and other bitter tonics, nux 

 vomica, acids, and occasionally with arsenic. 



In conjunction with nutritive and oleaginous diet, iron is 

 given to horses and cattle to improve condition. It is said 

 to abate nasal gleet and leucorrhcea. It is prescribed with 

 aloes for atonic torpidity of the bowels, and for destroying 

 intestinal worms. Combined with iodine, it arrests diabetes 

 insipidus in horses. It is one of the remedies given to 

 check the earlier progress of liver-rot in sheep. Chorea and 

 epilepsy, when connected, as they often are, with anaemia, 

 are benefited by iron. In hsemorrhagie cases, as in purpura, 

 it is prescribed with a mineral acid, and alternated with 

 quinine. Given after a laxative, it aids recovery of cattle 

 and sheep from red- water. 



In convalescence from debilitating disorders it is regarded 

 as a valuable hsematinic. In the several forms of influenza 

 and bronchitis, Robertson prescribed ferrous sulphate and 

 nux vomica, of each half a drachm, with four drachms of 

 powdered gentian, in bolus. In irritability, chronic catarrh, 

 or hsemorrhagic conditions of the urinary bladder, such as 

 accompany or follow epizootic disorders in horses, it has 

 been prescribed with sulphuric acid and alternated with 

 salicylic acid. A course of iron and quinine is advised in 

 convalescence from nephritis. Although itself devoid of 

 purgative effect, iron sulphate is stated to increase the 

 activity of most cathartics with which it is combined. The 

 sulphate in solution, 2 to 10 per cent., is much used as an 

 astringent antiseptic. Mixed with sulphates of lime and 

 alumina, Tuson's disinfectant powder is formed, which, 

 when moistened, gives off sulphurous anhydride. 



DOSES, etc. Horses take 3ss. to 3ij- ; cattle, ^i. to 3iv. ; 

 sheep, grs. x. to grs. xxx. ; pigs, grs. v. to grs. xx. ; dogs, 

 grs. ij. to grs. x ; cats, gr. Jth to gr. j. The smaller doses 

 are given as hsematinics and tonics, the larger as astrin- 

 gents. Two and a half parts of the dried sulphate are equal 

 to four of the sulphate. The drug is administered in bolus, 

 in solution in water-gruel, infusion of calumba, or ale, or 

 mixed with soft food, and repeated twice or thrice daily. 



