448 THE HORSE. 



5. For Generally Defective Secretions — 



Flowers of Sulphur .... 6 ounces. 



Emetic Tartar 5 to 8 drachms. 



Corrosive Sublimate . . . .10 grains. 

 Linseed meal mixed with hot water, enough to form 6 balls, one of 

 which may be given two or three times a week. 



6. In Debility of Stomach — 



Calomel 1 scruple. 



Aloes 1 drachm. 



Cascarilla Bark, 'i 



Gentian Root, > of each in powder . 1 drachm. 



Ginger, j 



Castile Soap 3 drachms. 



Syrup enough to make a ball, which may be given twice a week, or 

 every other night. 



ANESTHETICS. 



Anesthetics (a, not, privative; atadrjffiq, sensation) produce 

 insensibility to all external impressions, and therefore to pain. 

 They resemble narcotics in their action, and, when taken into the 

 stomach, may be considered purely as such. The most certain and 

 safe way of administering them is by inhalation, and chloroform 

 is the drug now universally employed. The modus operandi, of the 

 various kinds has never yet been satisfactorily explained ; and 

 when the comparison is made, as it often is, to the action of intox- 

 icating fluids, we are no nearer to it than before. With alcoholic 

 fluids, however, the disorder of the mental functions is greater in 

 proportion to the insensi"biiity to pain ; and if they are taken in 

 sufficient quantities to produce the latter efiect, they are dangerous 

 to life itself The action of anaesthetics on the horse is very sim- 

 ilar to that on man. 



ANODYNES, 



Sometimes called Narcotics, when taken into the stomach, 

 pass at once into the blood, and there act in a special manner on 

 the nervous centres. At first they exalt the nervous force ; but 

 they soon depress it, the second stage coming on the sooner accord- 

 ing to the increase of the dose. They are given either to soothe 

 the general nervous system, or to stop diarrhoea; or sometimes to 

 relieve spasm, as in colic or tetanus. Opium is the chief anodyne 

 used in veterinary medicine, and it may be employed in very large 

 ioses : — 



7. Anodyne Drench for Colic — 



Linseed Oil 1 pint. 



Oil of Turpentine . . . . 1 to 2 ounces. 



Laudanum 1 to 2 ounces. 



Mix, and give every hour till relief is afforded. 



