MEDICINES AXD THEIR DOSES. 1? 



sheep and swine, 1 to 2 drams, 3 or 4 times a day, in 

 mucilage or gruel. 



Chamomile Flowers. — Horses and cattle, 1 to 2 oz.; 

 calves, sheep, and swine, 1 dram. Sometimes used as 

 fomentations and poultices. 



Charcoal (Carbon). — Horses, 4 drams to 1 oz. ; cattle, 

 1 oz.; sheep and swine, 1 to 3 drams, in gruel or other 

 mucilaginous fluid. 



Chloral (Hydrate). — Horses, 2 to 4 drams; cattle, 4 

 drams to 1 oz. ; sheep and swine, -j- to 2 drams, in sirup 

 (syrup), every 2 or 3 hours. 



Chlorine is made by heating common salt and man- 

 ganese black oxide with sulphuric acid. The gas is in- 

 haled or the fresh solution applied in spray for ulcerated 

 or diphtheritic sore throat in horses, and to abate the 

 discharge and fetor in diseases of the facial and frontal 

 sinuses (cavities). Both destroy the mites infesting the 

 air-passages of calves and lambs. The liquor chlori (wa- 

 ter charged with chlorine gas) is often introduced into 

 the windpipe. Chlorine is irritant, stimulant, antiseptic 

 (opposed to putrefaction), deodorant, and disinfectant. 



Chloroform. — Horses and cattle, 1 to 2 oz.; sheep and 

 swine, 4 drams to 1 oz. ; given on blotting paper or 

 sponge for sheep and swine; on sponge or in bag for 

 horses and cattle ; put sponge in nostril. The chloro- 

 formed horse must have its knees protected with stout 

 caps. Internal dose — horses and cattle, 1 to 2 drams; 

 sheep and swine, 20 to 40 drops, in sirup, mucilage, 

 whisked egg, or weak alcohol, every 2 or 3 hours. 



Chloroform, Spirit of.— Horses, 1 oz.; cattle, 2 oz.; 

 sheep and swine, 2 to 6 drams, in water. 



Cinchona.— Horses, 2 to 4 drams; cattle, 1 to 2 oz.; 

 sheep and swine, 1 to 4 drams, 2 or 3 times daily for 

 several days, reducing the dose or intermitting for a day 

 or two if nausea occurs. The above doses are for the 

 bark. An infusion is made by digesting for 1 hour, in a 



