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Dose. — For horses, 1 ounce or 4 tablespoonfuls; cattle, 1 

 ounce or 4 tablespoonfuls ; sheep, -^ ounce or 2 tablespoonfuls ;, 

 pigs and dogs, ^ ounce or 1 tablespoonful. Mix in a pint of luke 

 warm water and give as a drench. For how often to give it refer 

 to the different diseases it is used in. This is a medicine that is 

 used a great deal in practice, as you will see all through the book, 

 and should be thoroughly understood. 



SPIRITS OF TURPENTINE. 



Spirits of Turpentine, also called Oil of Turpentine, is got 

 from a tree. It is used in the form of a clear, oily looking liquid. 



Its Action and Use. — Internally for horses and cattle it is 

 used in one ounce or four tablespoonful doses mixed with a pint of 

 raw linseed oil in severe cases of acute indigestion and colic to re- 

 lieve the pain and gases; it is also used in this proportion for 

 killing the long round worms and bots in horses. For further 

 particulars turn to bots and long round worms in horses and 

 other diseases it is used in. Internally for sheep and pigs the dose 

 of turpentine is one-quarter of an ounce or one tablespoonful 

 mixed with half a pint of raw linseed oil. It is used for the same 

 purposes as it is in horses and cattle. Outwardly it is used for 

 making liniments, and for how to use it refer to the receipts for 

 making white linement and acid liniments at the back of this book. 



SALTS. 



Salts are used in two forms, Epsom and Glober. Both kinds 

 are got from the mineral kingdom, and are in a white crystal form. 



EPSOM SALTS. 



Its Action and Use. — Its chief action is as a physic for cattle, 

 sheep and pigs, and is used to a great extent, as you will notice 

 on reading the treatment of the above mentioned animals. 

 Although salts is a good physic it should not be given to horses, 

 aloes being far the best physic for them. 



Dose. — Cattle take from one pound to one and one-half 

 pounds dissolved in a quart of luke warm water with a tablespoon- 

 ful each of ginger and common soda and given as a drench. This 

 physic takes twenty-four hours to operate on the bowels. It is 

 alway* best after giving a dose to wait twenty-four hours for an 

 action before giving any more. Sheep and pigs take one-quarter 

 of a pound dissolved in a pint of luke warm water with a tea- 

 spoonful each of ginger and common soda and given as a drench. 



