OIL AND FLUID 635 



chiefly of thymol, a proportion of the camphoraceous 

 constituents which characterise the oil, and hydrogen 

 peroxide. 



ACTIONS AND USES. Sanitas oil and fluid are volatile, 

 oxidising, non-poisonous antiseptics, disinfectants, and 

 deodorants. Their several constituents in various ways 

 attack and destroy organised ferments, and the lower forms 

 of vegetable and animal life. Sanitas preparations have an 

 agreeable aromatic odour, are not corrosive, and do not 

 stain or injure clothing or other textile fabrics. Their 

 power of checking fermentation has led to the administra- 

 tion of the fluid to calves fed on milk, and suffering from 

 dyspepsia or diarrhoea ; an ounce of the fluid is prescribed 

 with six ounces of water, and may be conjoined with spirit, 

 ether, or chloroform. 



Useful antiseptic lotions for wounds, ulcers, and bruises 

 are prepared with one part of the fluid, diluted, according to 

 circumstances, with four to ten parts of water. Ointments 

 and liniments are prepared with about the same proportions 

 of oils and fats. When wounds, for ten days or longer, 

 have been treated with carbolic or other irritant dressings, 

 granulation and skin growth often proceed more satis- 

 factorily with the substitution of the milder Sanitas. In 

 sore-throat, catarrh of the sinuses of the head, aphtha, and 

 foot-and-mouth complaint, solutions and sprays are often 

 i useful, and being devoid of irritant effects, are also service- 

 able for rectal, uterine, and vesical injections. Sanitas 

 solutions and soaps not only cleanse and disinfect, but 

 gently stimulate the skin, abate itching, remove scurf, and 

 ; promote healing in prurigo, chronic eczema, and similar 

 skin complaints. Sanitas fluid, diluted with twenty to 

 fifty parts of tepid water, is serviceable for sponging febrile 

 patients, and for disinfecting animals affected with con- 

 1 tagious disease. In canine practice, the fluid diluted with 

 it four to six parts of water, is used in canker of the ear, 

 | ulceration of the mouth, eczema, and as a uterine injection 

 ] after parturition. Sanitas oil destroys the parasites of scab 

 | and mange, as well as lice, fleas, and maggots, and arrests 

 \ the cryptogamic growth of ringworm. Even in concentrated 

 : form, there is no risk of its exciting undue irritation, or 



