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easily dissolved in water. Acids are mostly poisonous, 

 except when highly diluted, or mixed with with water. 



Acetic Acid. — This acid is eight times stronger than 

 ordinary vinegar. 



Use. — Sometimes used in sprains, and for the destruc- 

 tion of the poison of insects, by adding one ounce of 

 camphor to four ounces of the acid. 



Pyroligneous Acid — is got by the distillation of wood, 

 and sometimes sold in a diluted form as white vinegar, 

 and is used with salt by horsemen to sore backs and 

 shoulders. 



Muriatic Acid. — This is commonly called the spirit 

 of salt. 



Use. — A good tonic in debilitating diseases in horses 

 and cattle, and is much used by me in pleuro-pneumo- 

 nia in cattle, for it relieves the quick breathing, and 

 keeps up the strength. 



Dose. — Forty to sixty drops given largely diluted, or 

 mixed with cold water, and repeated three to four times 

 in the day. 



Externally J it is used for sores in the feet of horses, by 

 pouring a few drops in the nail-hole or sore. Ten drops 

 poured into the fistulous openings of poll evil, or quitter 

 in the foot, daily, sometimes cures the disease. 



Nitric Acid, or Aquaeortis. — This given properly, 

 and largely diluted, is an excelent tonic, and is used for 

 the same purpose, and in the same doses as the pre- 

 ceding. 



Sulphuric Acid. — Possibly this acid is preferable to 

 any other of the acids for internal use, in weakness and 

 debility, and is given in from forty to sixty drop doses, 

 also largely diluted with water. Horses and cattle will 



