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sibility are produced. It is rapidly absorbed and also 

 rapidly diffused, and fatal cases have occurred from 

 its local use in full strength. The dog and cat are 

 especially sensitive to carbolic acid ; hence it must be 

 very carefully used on these animals. It is partly 

 oxidized in the body and partly eliminated by the 

 lungs, skin, and kidneys, imparting to the urine an 

 olive-brown color, and giving this excretion the power 

 of resisting putrefaction for a considerable time. 

 Death from a medium dose occurs by paralysis of res- 

 piration; from a large dose by paralysis of the heart. 

 The blood after death is very dark in color and almost 

 non-coagulable. 



Antidotes and Antagonists. — Magnesium or so- 

 dium sulphate in large doses at once to form a sul- 

 phocarbolate; aqua calcis in copious doses, but is 

 not so efficient as the sulphates ; atropine is a com- 

 plete physiological antagonist, maintaining the heart 

 and respiration. Vegetable demulcents — as oatmeal 

 gruel, linseed tea, etc. (but no oils or glycerin) — to 

 protect the mucous surfaces. 



Therapeutics. — As an antiseptic carbolic acid 

 may be applied in surgery and in the treatment of 

 wounds of all kinds, excepting those of the eye. As 

 a wash in footrot among sheep, fistulse, burns, scalds, 

 injuries of vagina or uterus, resulting from parturi- 

 tion, leucorrhoeal and other discharges. Internally 

 — in Texas fever, anthrax, foot-and-mouth diseases 

 catarrhal influenza of horses, strangles, typhoid com- 

 plaints. As a mouth-wash in stomatitis and glossi- 

 tis ; as an intratracheal injection in calves suffering 



