CONTENTS 



ULCERS - 



The Simple Ulcer - 



The Indolent or Callous Ulcer - 



Weak Ulcers - - ..... 



Specific Infective Ulcers - ...... 



SINUS AND FISTULA . . 428 



Sinuses . . 428 



Fistula . 429 



FISTULOUS WOUNDS - . 430 



Poll Evil . 430 



Fistulous Withers . 432 



Sore Shoulders and Shoulder Abscesses - 435 



22. FIRST AID TO THE SICK AND INJURED - 437 



23. MEDICINES- 



INTRODUCTORY - ... . 441 



MEDICINES AND THEIR PREPARATION - . 444 



Preparing for Physic - 445 



Condition Balls . 445 



MEDICINES WHICH ACT UPON THE BLOOD, AFFECTING THE NUTRITION 



OF THE ENTIRE BODY - 446 



Blood Tonics - 447 



Iron . 447 



Action and Use of Iron - - 447 



Drugs for Reducing the Alkalinity of the Blood 448 



Soda 449 



Lime - 450 



Cooling Medicines - 450 



Antipyretics - - 450 



Quinine and Salicine - 451 



Uses of Quinine - 451 



Salicine - 452 



Salicylic Acid 452 



Salicylate of Soda - - - 452 



MEDICINES WHICH ACT ON TISSUE CHANGE - - 452 



Alteratives 452 



Arsenic - - 453 



Astringents 454 



Nut-Galls - 455 



Tannic Acid ... 455 



Gallic Acid - - 455 



Oak Bark - 455 



Catechu ............ 455 



