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understood to comprehend those remedies which restore 

 healthy function to organs previously disordered. If this 

 be correct, then all remedies are alteratives. 



i. Powders for Simple Disorders of the Skin. — Sul- 

 phate or nitrate of potash, in fine powder, i to 4 drms. ; 

 sublimed sulphur, 2 to 6 drms. ; powdered gentian, 2 to 

 8 drms. Mix, and give daily in the food for a week, or 

 as required. 



2. For Chronic Skin Diseases, Grease, &-r. — Fowler's 

 solution of arsenic, 2 to 8 fluid drms. ; tincture of gentian, 

 1 to 2 fluid oz. Mix with £ pint of linseed mucilage, 

 and give as a drench twice daily for a week. 



3. Chlorate of potash, powdered, sublimed sulphur, 

 and powdered gentian or linseed-meal, of each 2 to 6 

 drms. Mix, and incorporate with the manger-food daily 

 for a week or longer, as required. 



Precise information will be found under other remedies 

 which follow. 



ANODYNES. 



Remedies included in this term are those which have 

 the power of soothing and allaying pain. They do so by 

 quieting the nervous system, and in this way also relieve 

 spasm. 



1. For simple Colic. — Extract of belladonna, reduced 

 to an emulsion with water, 2 drms. ; spirits of nitrous 

 ether, 2 fluid oz. ; tincture of opium, £ oz. Mix and add 

 tepid water to make one pint. 



2. Another form. — Linseed oil, 1 pint; tincture of 

 opium, 3 fluid oz. Mix, and administer by means of a 

 tin bottle. Useful in colic combined with constipation 

 in large animals. Half the above quantities form the 

 ordinary antispasmodic drench, and as an anodyne in 

 simple diarrhoea. 



3. For Diarrhoea, Superpurgafion, &c. — Powdered 

 kino, 2 drms. ; powdered opium, | drm. ; powdered 

 gentian, 2 drms. ; sulphuric ether, 1 fluid oz. Mix. and 

 agitate some minutes in the closed bottle; then add 

 water, or simple gruel, both of which should be cold. 



