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lant, astringent, styptic, and antiseptic. Its irritant 

 action is counteracted by galls, alkaline carbonates, 

 and demulcents. It is given in anaemia, dysentery, 

 diarrhoea, scrofula, relaxed mucous membranes, 

 wasteful serous or bloody discharges, as diabetes, red 

 water in cattle, purpura, and various forms of hemor- 

 rhages. It antagonizes enlargement of spleen and 

 liver, and has been given with good effect in chorea 

 and epilepsy ; also in convalescence from debilitating 

 diseases. It should not be given if the bowel is very 

 irritable, and should not be continued for more than 

 two weeks at a time, allowing a few days' interval 

 without its administration before resuming. Give 

 soon after feeding — never on empty stomach. 



Iodide of iron is a good tonic, alterative, and astrin- 

 gent, and may be used the same as the sulphate, but 

 is especially effective in polyuria, nasal gleet accom- 

 panied by debility, and scrofulous and rheumatic 

 swellings of the joints. 



Iron chloride is used in red water in cattle, farcy, 

 purpura, and typhoid complaints ; distemper, loss of 

 appetite from want of tone, hemorrhage in alimentary 

 canal, and as an astringent and stimulant for the gen- 

 ito-urinary mucous membranes. In erysipelas half- 

 ounce doses of the tincture of iron have given most 

 gratifying results. In sore throat give with chlorate 

 of potash or muriate of ammonia. Diluted with wa- 

 ter and injected per rectum to destroy ascarides. In 

 the treatment of rheumatism in weak, debilitated ani- 

 mals, alternate it with salicylic acid. Externally it 

 is applied as antiseptic, astringent, and styptic. 



