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294 COST OF MEDICINE-CHEST. 



to provide himself with a convenient little medicine 

 chest, and put into it say four times the quantities of 

 the various medicine* which are mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding pages, carefully bottled and labelled for use. To 

 aid in this simple plan, which might be the means of 

 saving an animal worth twenty times its cost, I have 

 obtained, from a ivJwlesale druggist, about the average 

 cost of the following quantities and kinds of medicines, 

 which include all, or nearly all, that would be likely to 

 be needed: Five pounds of Epsom salts, .18; one pint of 

 castor-oil, .25 ; one pint of sweet spirits of nitre, .19 ; 

 one pound of powdered nitrate of potash, .20 ; one 

 pound carbonate of ammonia, .23 ; one half-pound sal 

 ammoniac, .08 ; one pint of tincture of red pepper (hot 

 drops), .37 ; one ounce of hydriodate of potash, .30 ; 

 one pound chloride of lime, .10; one pound sulphate of 

 iron, .10 ; 2 pounds powdered sulphur, .16; one pint of 

 tincture of ginger, 37 ; one quart of essence of anise- 

 seed, .50 ; one half-pound sulphuric ether, .20 ; one 

 half-pound powdered sassafras-bark, .20 ; one quarter- 

 pound magnesia, .06 ; one quarter-pound rhubarb, .30 

 (the common will answer instead of prepared) ; one 

 ounce powdered opium, .43; one quarter-pound catechu, 

 .06 ; one ounce Dover's powders, .25 ; 2 ounces gum 

 kino, .05 ; one half-pound mercurial ointment, .37J ; and 

 one pound aloes, .25. Then keep in the chest a good pro- 

 bang, which is a flexible tube made for the purpose, and 

 is much safer and better for introducing into the throat 

 or gullet of an animal than a common whip-stick, which 

 some use. This costs about $3.50, and can be pro- 

 cured at almost any veterinary surgeon's. This whole 

 chest and contents will cost less than ten dollars. 



Let the farmer also become familiar with the structure 

 and anatomy of his animals. It will open a wide field 

 of useful and interesting investigation. 



