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the bowels, mustard is useful. The mode of application 

 of mustard is as follows : If the hair of the part be long, 

 cut it oif, then foment the part with warm water, and 

 immediately rub into the parts a handful of the best flour 

 of mustard. This is more effectual than laying a paste or 

 poultice without rubbing. 



Volatile Oil of mustard makes a good counter-irritant, 

 when a few drops are rubbed into the skin. Vinegar added 

 to mustard does not, as is thought, produce a better effect. 

 AYarm water answers every purpose. 



Myrrh. — A gum resin, used in the form of a tincture 

 and a compound tincture, for sores, and a good application 

 in sore mouth, from the bit, or other cause. 



Narcotics are medicines which act upon the brain, and 

 thereby allay pain. Example: Opium and its preparations, 

 aconite, and chloroform. 



Neat's Foot Oil. — Used for skin diseases, and for 

 allaying the irritation of blisters and keeping the skin from 

 cracking. 



Nervines. — Medicines relieving pain, without pro- 

 ducing narcotism. 



Nitric Acid.— (See Acids.) 



Nitre. — Saltpetre. This medicine has long been used as 

 a diuretic, and as a febrifuge in low fevers. Cheaper and 

 better medicines are daily in use for this purpose. Xitre 

 is not a cheap medicine, nor yet is it an indispensable one. 

 The days are long since past AvKen emetic, tartar, nitre and 

 digitalis were the remedies used in all cases of inflammation, 

 irritation and fever. This formula has in its day deceived 

 many a man, and has been the means whereby many thou- 

 sands of valuable animals have been lost. Wherever uitre 



