64 VETERi:S"ARY MATERIA MEDICA. 



Solution of acetate of ammonia is not so powerful 

 in action as either the liquor or the carbonate, but is 

 a good diaphoretic, antipyretic, a mild diuretic, and 

 expectorant. 



Therapeutics. — Liquor AmmonicB : Indiges- 

 tion, tympanites, spasmodic colic, in ruminants espe- 

 cially; influenza, pneumonia, bronchial disorders, 

 poisoned bites and stings. Antidote against poison- 

 ing by opium, aconite, and digitalis. Externally as 

 counter-irritant (ammonia liniment) to rheumatic 

 swellings of joints and muscles ; sore throat. 



Ammoniiun Carbonate: Atonic dyspepsia of all 

 animals, acidity of the stomach, to relieve flatulence 

 and spasm; in influenza, scarlatina; in bronchial dis- 

 orders and pneumonia, especially at crisis to liquefy 

 the products of inflammation and counteract defi- 

 ciency of vital powers, and whenever a prompt stim- 

 ulant is required. 



Ammonium Chloride: In bronchial and gastric 

 catarrh in all animals, especially after the more acute 

 symptoms have subsided ; torpidity of the liver, ca- 

 tarrh of the bile ducts and its jaundice; duodenal 

 and intestinal catarrhs; locally in solution to inflam- 

 mations, bruises, and sprains. 



Vegetable Acids. 



Of these but one is used in veterinary practice, 

 namely, the acetic. 



Acidum Aceticum Piirum, U. S. P., pure acetic 

 acid, containing thirty-six per cent, absolute acetic 



