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easily influenced by appropriate medicine, and in 

 avneral, not to require as frequent repetitions as 

 the human, subject. Accustomed to give large 

 and powerful doses of poisonous medicines in order 

 to produce some revulsive effect, such as a ca- 

 thartic or sudorific, or even as an alternative, we 

 can not hence infer the proper quantity required 

 when a mere curative result is desired. ' Only ex- 

 perience, hence, can answer the question how 

 much? And experience has amply shown that 

 for horses, four five, or eight drops is the range of 

 doses best adapted in ordinary cases, and that 

 while cattle and hogs require rather more, sheep 

 and dogs require less than the doses above men- 

 tioned. We have indicated in each disease the 

 dose supposed to be best for that particular case, 

 yet to give two or three drops more in any given 

 case would probably not be hurtful, while to give 

 one or two drops less, would not endanger the cu- 

 rative action for want of the requisite quantity. 

 The truth is, that precision in quantity is not in- 

 dispensable to a cure. The doses indicated we 

 think are best, but a deviation from them is by 

 no means fatal. One physician gives much more 

 and another many times less, and both are suc- 

 cessful. Medicine gives a curative impulse often 

 as well or better with two or five drops as with 

 much more. Besides, in giving medicines to ani- 

 mals, from their restlessness, dodging the head, 

 and other similar disturbing circumstances we can 

 not, and happily need not, be very positive, (jive 

 the doses as near the direction as convenient, and 

 the result will be satisfactory. Young animals 

 require but half as much as grown ones. 



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