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septic in the blood, without poisoning the cells of the 

 animal. There are specific diseases in which certain drugs 

 have a special affinity for, and a deterrent or destructive 

 effect on the causal organism, for example, quinine on the 

 malarial parasite, and iodine on actinomyces, but there is 

 no one drug useful as a blood and tissue antiseptic, and the 

 employment of carbolic acid internally has been attended 

 with disappointing results. It has been administered in 

 foot-and-mouth disease, in which the glycerin of phenol and 

 other solutions are also applied locally with zinc and lead 

 lotions. For tetanus, Bacelli recommends subcutaneous 

 injection of a 3 per cent, solution in distilled water, and this 

 treatment in the United States has proved satisfactory. 

 In France carbolic acid is frequently given as an antithermic 

 and internal antiseptic ; and for contagious equine pneu- 

 monia a favourite remedy consists of sixty grains each of 

 phenol and camphor with a sufficiency of honey or treacle 

 and powdered liquorice to form an electuary. The severity 

 of catarrhal influenza of horses is materially abated, while 

 its spread is checked by administration of antiseptics 

 and by spraying the nostrils and throat with a one per cent, 

 phenol solution. In such cases, and also in chronic bron- 

 chitis and pharyngitis, air or steam, medicated with carbolic 

 acid, is used as an inhalation. In tedious cases of strangles 

 and in purpura it is prescribed with iodine or iron, or both, 

 and is also applied externally. 



Stomatitis and ulcerations of the mouth and throat are 

 treated with a two to four per cent, solution of the acid 

 conjoined, sometimes with iodine, or with tannin and 

 glycerin. Aetinomycosis, after the diseased surface has 

 been scraped, is dressed with four parts of carbolic acid and 

 one of iodine, dissolved in six or eight parts of glycerin 

 (Walley). Added to the ordinary prescriptions used in 

 dyspepsia, diarrhoea, and dysentery, carbolic acid or creolin 

 checks fermentative changes and lessens acridity and fcetor 

 of the excreta. With oil of turpentine and opium tincture, 

 it is used for intratracheal injections in calves suffering from 

 parasitic bronchitis. Foals and other animals infested with 

 Scl. tetracanthum and other strongyles, have been success- 

 fully treated with carbolic acid conjoined with turpentine 



