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doc. If there is much swelliiig, bleeding and a dose of 

 salts wi]] be useful. For bites of animals, apply to the 

 wound a poultice of pumiced onions, or quick lime and 

 oil; after which dress with the fresh juice of the common 

 plaintain. Where mineral poisons has been taken into 

 the stomach, give (c«s soon as possible) freely of lime 

 water, this sheathes the stomach against its action on it, 

 then give honey, chalk, or sugar in water, with a view 

 to dilute the poison if possible — but do not give physic 

 immediately, for it will carry the whole poison into the 

 bowels and certainly produce death. Camphor is an an- 

 tidote for strychnine. When any of the alkalies have 

 been taken in sufficient quantities to prove disastrous, 

 vinegar is the proper antidote; it must be given in large 

 quantities, it neutralizes the alkali. When any of the 

 strong acids have been taken, the reverse of the above 

 is the treatment to be used. But if the animal should be 

 troubled with very difficult breathing and irregular pulse, 

 give often of calcined magnesia in water, if this is not 

 to be had, give soft soap, soda, or chalk in water. 



Condition Powder JS^o. 1. — The superfine flour of 

 slippery elm bark (ulraas fulva) is what I use as the 

 basis of these powders; this of itself is good in most 

 diseases and harmless in health, viz: it is good in fevers, 

 and in inflammations of all kinds. It lubricates the 

 urinary passages in difficulties of that kind. It is good 

 in cases of colds and coughs, by loosening the phlegm, 

 and allaying inflammation in the larynx and trachea; 

 it also acts as a diaphoretic. To one pound of the above, 

 add nearly one-fourth of flour of sulphur; it is by a con- 



