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and hypochlorous acid), with lotion of carbolic acid, or perhaps 

 most preferably with ointment of salicylic acid. While the 

 mouth is sore, the food should be of a moist nature, as the pain 

 occasioned by the devouring of hard food is apt to be great, and 

 may prevent the animal from taking a sufficient amount of 

 nourishment. If it be decided to give any medicine, three 

 drachms of sulphite of sodium, or two drachms of salicylic acid 

 may be added to the drinking water, of which the ox should have 

 a good supply. This dose may be repeated twice daily. It is 

 not, however, necessary to use such antiseptic agents in the mild 

 cases, seeing that these almost universally terminate in recovery, 

 even when no treatment whatever is adopted. Yet it is indeed 

 probable that antiseptic medicines do materially expedite recovery. 

 One drachm of sulphite of sodium, or about 15 grains of 

 salicylic acid, may be given in the drinking-water twice daily to 



The feet should be well looked to. When the born is loose, 

 it should be removed with great care and judgment, and the 

 sore parts should be dressed with ointment of salicylic acid or 

 some other effectual antiseptic preparation, such as the ointment 

 or the lotion of boric acid. The lotion of boric acid contains 

 one part of the acid to twenty parts of water, and is easily made 

 by adding water near the boiling point to the powdered acid. 

 The ointment of boric acid contains one part of the acid to about 

 six parts of vaseline or lard. 



The compound ointment of carbolic acid, made of carbolic acid, 

 iodoform, oil of eucalyptus, and lard, is also a very efficacious 

 antiseptic ointment (vide GressweWs Veterinary Pharmacopoeia). 



A piece of cotton wool or tow may be soaked with the lotion, or, 

 better still, smeared with the ointment, and then spread over the 

 affected parts. The foot should then be neatly bandaged up, so 

 as to keep it quite free from dirt. If the mouth be very sore, 

 a gargle made of one part of boric acid, five parts of glycerine, 

 and eleven of water may be used to wash out the mouth several 

 times daily. On the whole, we recommend the ointment of 

 salicylic acid for the feet. 



When an ox shows symptoms indicating much prostration, a 

 drench containing three drachms of carbonate of ammonium and 

 two drachms of salicylate of sodium, and one ounce of nitric 

 €ther may be given in a sufficiency of water three times daily. 



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