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Oil should be used instead, thus forming a liniment of 

 sulphur more easy of application. 



Doses. Sulphur, as a laxative for horses and cattle, 

 should be given in doses from one to three ounces, and 

 administered in gruel, in the form of a drench. Fur dogs, 

 the dose is one to two drachms. It is not recommended as 

 an internal medicine. 



Sulphurous Acid Gas. — This is one of the most 

 powerful disinfectants we have. The great objection to 

 its general use for this purpose is, its poisonous character 

 when breathed or inhaled to any extent. But from recent 

 experiments instituted by Dr. James Dewor, of Kirkcaldy, 

 Scotland, for testing the efficacy of sulphurous acid gas as a 

 disinfectant, results are shown which lead to the conviction, 

 that diseases such as cholera in man, and rinderpest and 

 pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, may not only be prevented, but 

 much modified by this, hitherto considered, poisonous gas. 

 The method of generating sulphurous acid gas is very 

 simple and inexpensive. It is only necessary to have a 

 small chaffern of red hot cinders from a coal fire, a small 

 crucible on the hot cinders, and a piece of sulphur-stick 

 about as large as a man\s thumb placed into it. This will 

 fumigate a large cattle shed, or stable, in twenty minutes. 

 Contrary to expectation, the animals seem to enjoy it, and 

 it acts at the same time as a tonic on man and beast. The 

 shed or other house must be well ventilated, by having 

 the windows a little open before, during, and after the 

 fumigation. Sanitary rules must be enforced in regard to 

 cleanliness, removal of dung-heaps, etc. During the 

 prevalence of such epizootics as are above named, the 

 fumigation may be made according to the foregoing direc- 

 tions, four or five times in the day. It is further said, 



