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For the dog, castor oil may be a proper and useful 

 purgative • and for the pig, also. Aloes, and linseed oil, 

 is the purgative for the horse ; epsom, or glauber salts, 

 for the ox, and the sheep. Whatever suits man, as a X3urge, 

 will answer for the dog and pig. 



Cassia. — False Cinnamon. Much cheaper than cin- 

 namon, and may be given to horses and cattle, in powder, 

 mixed in gruel, for loss of appetite. 



Dose. One to two ounces, for horses, or cattle. 



Catechu. — An extract from a species of acacia. 



Use. An astringent, binding the bowels in diarrhoea, and 

 is used in combination with chalk and opium. 



Dose. For horses and cattle, two to five drachms. For 

 sheep and swine, one to three drachms. For the dog, tea 

 to twenty grains. 



For superpurgation in horses, and cows, my favorite 

 combination is as follows: Catechu, two to five drachms; 

 prepared chalk, one to two ounces ; powdered opium, ten 

 to thirty grains ; mix, and drench with wheat-flour grael. 



Clialk. — (See Carbonate of Lime.) 



Chamomile. — The flowers of anthemis nohlis. 



Use. A very mild tonic, possibly too much so for the 

 horse or cow. We have better ones, although, perhaps, 

 not so well known. 



Charcoal. — Occasionally given to cows, in chronic 

 diarrhcea. 



Dose. Half an ounce to one ounce, given suspended in 

 gruel, of any kind. Externally, charcoal is very vahiable, 

 when applied to badly smelling wounds, and ulcers. It 

 immediately corrects the foetor, and rapidly disposes them 



