606 OIL OF TURPENTINE 



fomentation ; for controlling venous congestion and stasis 

 arising from frostbite, which is not uncommon in the limbs 

 of horses used for night work ; for promoting absorption 

 of small cysts ; for healing the troublesome chronic sores 

 occurring about the heels of draught-horses ; and for 

 relieving tedious foot-rot in sheep. For such cases it is 

 usually mixed with two or three parts of vaseline, oil, or 

 glycerin. A smilar mixture destroys lice and other skin 

 vermin, as well as the fungi of ringworm. An occasional 

 sprinkling over dogs' beds keeps them free of fleas. It is 

 often added to stavesacre, tobacco, and other antiparasitic 

 dressings. It enters into the composition of various mix- 

 tures used by shepherds to protect their flocks from flies, 

 and to kill maggots. For such purposes three ounces oil 

 of turpentine, one ounce each of sweet oil, common salt, 

 and mucilage, and half a drachm corrosive sublimate, are 

 mixed in a quart of water. 



DOSES, etc. For horses and cattle, as a stimulant and 

 anti-spasmodic, the dose is f j. to f ij. ; as a diuretic, f ss. 

 to f j. As an adjuvant cathartic or anthelmintic the dose 

 is about fij., combined with aloes in solution, with castor 

 or linseed oil, with iron salts, quassia, gentian, or other 

 bitters. Full-grown cattle take double these doses. Sheep 

 and pigs receive f3J- to f3i v - ; dogs, TT[xx. to f3J- It is 

 administered dissolved in bland oils, shaken up with linseed 

 gruel or milk, or made into an emulsion with mucilage or 

 eggs. Aromatics, bitters, or ethers are sometimes added. 

 Intratracheally, 3J- to 3ij-j mixed with an equal measure 

 of olive oil, may be administered to horses affected with 

 catarrh. 



For inhalation half a bucket of boiling water is placed 

 under the patient's nostrils, and an ounce of turpentine 

 placed in it ; or it may be introduced into the steam-kettle, 

 which is almost as serviceable in the treatment of bronchitis 

 in animals as in man. For enemata, turpentine is usually 

 diluted with fifty or sixty parts of oil ; or it is mixed with 

 two or three parts of oil or mucilage to ensure solution, 

 and then added to the soap and water. In diarrhoea or 

 dysentery it is conjoined with laudanum and starch gruel. 



For external purposes it is usually applied with linseed 



