492 Drugs and Medicines. 



Calomol — see Mercurials. 



Camphor. — Dose, horses, 1 to2draclims; cattle, 2 to 4 drachms; 

 sheep and pigs, J drachm. As a sedative, it is given in chronic cough, 

 colic, diarrhea and influenza. Externall}', spirits of camphor are very 

 popular, as an application to sprains, bruises and wounds, and enter into 

 many liniments. Nos. 77, 78, 164, 169. 



CantharideS {Spanish Files, Blistering Flies). — Their us6 

 should be external, chiefly. Blisters are useful in the later stages of 

 inflammation, and in local watery swellings and effusions. After an 

 attack of pleurisy, a blister will hasten the disap23earance of water from 

 the chest. For checking inflammation of the jugular vein, in a horse, 

 nothing is so prompt as a long, narrow blister along the tense, corded, 

 swollen vessel of the neck. Slow abscesses are brought to a head by a 

 blister. For healin^g obstinate, unhealthy, old ulcers, nothing so often 

 succeeds as to apj^ly a large blister, covering both the ulcer and an inch 

 or so of the flesh around it. Ointments of cantharides are much employed 

 by veterinarians for blistering purposes. 



In applying any blistering preparation, the hair should first be shaved 

 ofi". The animal should be prevented from rubbing and breaking the 

 blister when it rises. On the second day after it has been applied, the 

 part should be well bathed with warm water, and dressed with washed 

 lard, oil, or unsalted butter. Liniments of cantharides are used to 

 stimulate a part, short of blistering it. An average strength is — 



No. 485. Powdered cantharides, 1 oz. 



Linseed oil, 10 oz. 



To be rubbed in. 



Nos. 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 32, 33, 167, 234, 235, 237. 



Capsicum {J^ed pepper, Cayenne pepper) — see Pepper. 



Carraway Seod. — Dose J oz. Used as a stomachic, with other 

 medicines. 



Carbolic Acid. — Dose lO to 40 drops ; sheep and pigs, 5 to 10 

 drops. One of the most valuable veterinary medicines. In strangles, 

 putrid sore throat, low fevers and farcy, given in full doses, often re- 

 peated, it greatly lessens the severity of the disease. In indigestion, 

 dysj)e23sia and flatulence, it nearly always succeeds. "Wounds should be 

 freely washed with a one per cent, solution. Overreaches, quittors 

 and troublesome ulcers, should be covered with oakum, which should 

 be kept wet with the solution. For stings, bites, skin diseases and 

 parasites, it has numerous applications. As an antiseptic and disin- 



