396 HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. 



are in every-day use. Tobacco in all, or any of its forms, 

 is dangerous, being followed by great sickness, nausea 

 and prostration, from which many animals are ultimately 

 destroyed. 



Tragacanth. — (See Gum.) 



Turpentine. — Terebinthce. The various varieties of 

 turpentine in market. 



(1.) Common Turpentine. — The produce of the jjinus 

 2:)alustris of Xorth Carolina, and other States, and also of 

 Norway, and the north of Europe. The Plnus sylvestris, 

 or Scotch fir, yields considerable turpentine. 



(2.) Venice Turpentine. — This is prociu'ed from the 

 Larix Europea. 



(3.) Canada Balsam. — Procured from Abies Balsamce, 

 and is considered to be the purest of all the turpentines ; 

 hence it is called sometimes, the balsam of Gilead. 



(4.) Frankincense. — A product of Norway, and the 

 north of Europe. This variety enters into the composition 

 of what is known as Burgundy pitch, and is used in 

 veterinary practice for making adhesive plasters for the 

 loins of horses having been sprained, or having lumbago. 



(5.) Oil of Turpentine. — This is commonly called the 

 spirits of turpentine, and is used very largely in horse and 

 cattle diseases, both for internal administration and external 

 application. 



Uses. Oil of turpentine is a powerful stimulant, diuretic, 

 and antispasmodic, and is, therefore, used in colic in the 

 liorse, in puerperal apoplexy in cows, and in general 

 debility in all animals. As an external embrocation, it is 

 very efficient when combined with an equal portion of 

 sweet oil, but very dangerous when applied to the skin of 

 the horse alone. The horse will become restless, and, in 

 gome cases, utterly unmanageable. 



