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intestinal muscles, with efforts to vomit. Similar doses 

 in cattle produce emesis (Kaufmann). The appropriate 

 antidotes are stimulants, such as ammonia, alcohol, or 

 atropine, also warm coffee, potassium carbonate solution, 

 and perfect quiet ; tannin, acetate of ammonia, and demul- 

 cents. 



MEDICINAL USES. For its febrifuge and analgesic actions 

 it has been prescribed in such febrile diseases as acute 

 pneumonia, pleurisy, peritonitis, rheumatism, and lamin- 

 itis ; but it must be used with extreme caution, and in 

 most cases safer and more effectual remedies may be used. 

 In persistent cases of shoulder rheumatism in horses, 

 Friedberger recommends J to 1 \ grains, dissolved in alcohol, 

 to be deeply injected into the affected muscles daily, begin- 

 ning with the smaller amount, and gradually increasing 

 it, intermitting the treatment every fourth or fifth day, 

 and walking the patient after each injection until the 

 general excitement produced abates. Kaufmann prescribes 

 it in muscular atony and in chronic intestinal catarrh. 

 Muller recommends it hypodermically in locomotor 

 paralysis ; and Berre considers it is the best gastric 

 stimulant for cattle affected with plenalvia, or indiges- 

 tion. It is given by the mouth in doses of three to five 

 grains ; or hypodermically, in doses of gr. ^, every two 

 hours. 



Externally, the ointment, made with 1 of veratrine, 4 of 

 oleic acid, and 45 of lard, is used to relieve rheumatic and 

 neuralgic pains, and as an insecticide. 



DOSES, etc. Horses and cattle per os take gr. i. to 

 grs. v., but hypodermically not more than gr. -g- for a first 

 dose, in 60 to 100 minims of diluted alcohol. Veratrine 

 should not be given to the dog. 



CINCHONA 



RED CINCHONA BARK. Cinchonae Rubrae Cortex. The 

 dried bark of the stem and branches of cultivated 

 plants of Cinchona suceirubra. Nat. Ord. Cin- 

 chonaceae (Rubiaceae). 



