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drench. For calves with tlie same disease, give from ten 

 to twenty grains as a dose, mixed with wheat-flour gruel. 

 Snuffed up the nostrils by man, in bleeding from the nose, 

 it will in most cases arrest it at once. 



Tannin of Krameria. — This is used for the same 

 purpose as the preceding, but it is a better stypic, or 

 arrester of bleeding from the skin or other sores. 



Tar, — Pix Liquida. Tar is not now used internally to 

 the extent it formerly was. To cattle it is still given in a 

 disease of the throat called cli/er^s. For this purpose egg- 

 shells are filled with good Barbadoes tar, and suspended 

 on the end of a split stick, and gently pushed down the 

 throat of the ox. As an external application, tar is still 

 used on sores about cattle, to keep the flies off; and it is 

 used to make stopping for horses' feet, singly, and mixed 

 with clay. It is kept in every horse-shoeing shop for 

 putting on the soles, usually Avith cotton, and having 

 leather nailed on Avith the shoe. 



Oil of Tar. — This is an excellent application when 

 mixed with equal parts of sweet, or some fish oil, to pro- 

 mote the growth of horn on the foot of the horse. To 

 give it a dark color to suit the foot, lamp-black may 

 be stirred in, in sufficient quantity to make a black hoof 

 ointment, which will be found an excellent formula for this 

 purpose. 



Tartar Emetic. — (See Antimony.) 



Tobacco. — Nicotiana Tabacum, Tobacco is used as a 

 medicine, principally in skin diseases, and for the de- 

 struction of lice and other insects, in the wool of sheep. 

 Tobacco smoke is a favorite remedy Avith some veterinarians, 

 for the removal and killing of Avorms, and in constipation, 

 and colic. For these purposes, better and safer agents 



