LOTIONS, PURGES, BLISTERS, ETC. 159 



Of linseed-oil alone the ordinary dose is one pint. 

 If ineffectual, to be repeated, with the addition of 

 twenty drops of croton-oil. 



Alterative Ball (for surfeit and skin diseases). — 

 Cream of tartar, half drachm ; nitre, two drachms ; 

 flowers of sulphur, half ounce — Mix in mass. 



External Absorbents. — Iodine ointment and tincture, 

 Stevens's ointment,' 55 ' water-dressing. 



Restoratives or Renovators — Drenches. — A quart of 

 stout, morning or evening; hay- tea, when mashes are 

 refused ; gruel properly prepared (page 161) and lin- 

 seed mashes (page 22). 



Soothing Drench in Colic. — Sulphuric ether, one 

 ounce; laudanum, one ounce; linseed-oil, one pint. 



Astringent Drenches (for diabetes). — Diluted phos- 

 phoric acid, one ounce; chilled water, one pint. 



Or — Oak-bark, one ounce ; alum, quarter ounce ; 

 camomile tea, one pint — Made into a drench. 



Feeding on old hay is generally effectual to check 

 purging. 



Clysters^ (for diarrhoea, dysentery, or over-purgation). 

 — Laudanum, one ounce — Mixed in three pints warm 

 thin starch, repeated every half-hour, as long as neces- 

 sary. (The above is soothing and astringent.) 



(For inflammation of the bladder or kidneys.) — In- 

 jections of warm linseed-tea constantly repeated. ; 



(For dysentery.) — Injections of cold linseed-tea. 



(For colic.) — Injection of one pint of turpentine 



* Prepared and sold by Mr H. R. Stevens, V.S., 8a Park Lane, 

 London, W., and all chemists. 



t The use of the clyster syringe by unskilled hands is very dan- 

 gerous — serious injury to the rectum being the common result ; 

 therefore great caution should be used to insert the pipe (well 

 greased) slowly and not too high up the channel. 



