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given five or six days, it should be suspended for a few days, so as tc 

 avoid irritating the stomach. Nos. 2, 152, 161, 17G, 205, 322, 423, 42a 



IpGCaCUanha. — Dose ^ oz. A diaphoretic and expectorant. 

 Useful in dysentery. Not very efficacious in the herbivora. Nos. G7, 

 137. 



Laudanum— see Opium. 



Lead Acetate {Sugar of lead), — Dose 1 drachm ; calves, 

 sheep, pigs, 10 to 15 grs. Used to check bleeding from the lungs and 

 bowels, profuse scouring, red water, etc., especially when combined 

 with opium. Externally, 5 or 10 grains dissolved in an ounce of water, 

 it is excellent to soothe and heal burns, bruises, irritable and moist 

 ulcers ; to cool and relieve inflamed tendons, moist skin diseases, and 

 cracked and itching skin diseases. It has been often used as an eye 

 wash, but for this it is not suitable, as the lead is apt to leave a perma- 

 nent stain or film on the eye, over the cornea. Nos. 119, 226, 227, 228, 

 248. 



LimGy Lime ^fotOT {Calcium oxide, quicklime, aquacalcis). — 

 Lime is irritant, corrosive and antacid. Lime water is made by briskly 

 stirring four ounces of freshly burned lime in a gallon of water, letting it 

 settle, and pouring off the clear solution. It is an excellent antacid in 

 indigestion, hoven, and diarrhea in cattle and calves. Dose 2 to 6 ozs. 

 Mixed with linseed oil, in equal parts, it is one of the best applications 

 in burns and scalds, and in watery and itching skin diseases. Powdered 

 slaked lime is used as an antacid. Dose 1 dr., mixed with moist food. 

 Nos. 265, 385. 



Lime Carbonate {Calcium carbonate. ChalJc). — Dose, 

 horses, 1 to 2 ozs. ; sheep, pigs, 2 to 4 drs. One of the cheapest and 

 most convenient antacids, much used in indigestion, chronic diarrhea, 

 and dysentery. May be given in milk or moist feed. Nos. 113, 116, 

 120, 121, 133, 385. 



Lime Chloride {Chlorinated lime, bleaching powder). — Prin- 

 cipally used as a disinfectant. Scattered about the stable, it keeps away 

 flies, rats and mice. Used externally for unhealthy wounds, mange and 

 grease. Of little or no value internally. It may be advantageously 

 mixed with equal parts of powdered sulphur. Nos. 3, 231, 312. 



Lunar Caustic — see Silver nitrate. 



Lobeiia Inflata {Indian tobacco). — Used as a nauscant and de- 



