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Action and Use. — It is not used internally to any great 

 extent, but is used externally for healing washes, such as in 

 white lotion and eye wash, fully explained in Chapter V. 



26. Salt or Sodium Chloride. 



Source. — Common Salt is obtained from brine pumped 

 from the ground. 



Action and Use. — It is an essential article of food, and 

 something every animal should have regularly. Horses, 

 cattle, sheep and pigs should have it in front of them all the 

 time for, it should be remembered, stock cannot thrive well 

 without it. Rock salt is the best form in which to have it, as 

 the animals can lick it whenever they want it. It is used 

 externally by throwing a handful of salt in a pail of lukewarm 

 water, and in this form it makes a very effectual wash for 

 bathing swellings and wounds. 



27. Salts. 



Source. — -Salts are used in two forms, Epsom and Glober. 

 Both kinds are in a white crystal form. 



EPSOM SALTS. 



Action and Use. — Its chief action is as a physic for cattle, 

 sheep and pigs, and is used to a great extent, as you will 

 notice on reading the treatment of the above mentioned 

 animals. Although salts is a good physic it should not be 

 given to horses, aloes being far the best physic for them. 



Dose. — Cattle take from one pound to one and one-half 

 pounds dissolved in a quart of lukewarm water with a table- 

 spoonful each of ginger and common soda and given as a 

 drench. This physic takes twenty-four hours to operate on 

 the bowels. It is always best after giving a dose to wait 

 twenty-four hours for an action before giving any more. 

 Sheep and pigs take one-quarter of a pound dissolved in a 

 pint of lukewarm water with a teaspoonful each of ginger 

 and bicarbonate soda and given as a drench. Wait from twelve 

 to sixteen hours for an action on the bowels before giving 

 any more. 



GLAUBER SALTS. 



Action and Use. — It is not so much used as the Epsom 

 Salts, but is used in horses and cattle for their blood by 



