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usually drink water, when acid is in it. In all kinds of 

 fevers, sulphuric acid is an excellent medicine to give. 

 In mixing this acid, the acid is to be added to the water, 

 not the water to the acid. 



Prussic Acid.— a highly dangerous poison. There 

 are two forms of this acid kept in the drug stores. 

 Schools contain five per cent., and that of colleges about 



two per cent. 



jjse.—GiYen in locked-jaw in the horse with consider- 

 able success. 



Zfose.—B.sl? to one drachm once a day. If the horse 

 be young, half a drachm will be enough. Two drops to 

 the ounce of water is an excellent wash to the skin of all 

 animals, in mange and inveterate itching. Great care, 

 however, must be exercised in its use, whether used in- 

 ternally or externally. It is sold under the name of 

 hydrocianic acid. 



AcomTE.—{Aconitum Napellus,) wolfsbane, monks- 

 hood.— An active poison, and one of the garden plants 

 of parts of Europe. The tincture is that portion which 

 is used in diseases of horses and cattle. 



Tincture of Aconite root—i^ one of the most powerful, 

 certain and successful sedatives which can be used. It 

 has done away with bleeding, blistering and physicmg, 

 which were formerly thought proper agents wherewith to 

 combat and cure disease. It is not only sedative, but it 

 is a nauseant, calmative, anodyne, stimulant diaphoretic 

 and antiphlogistic. It controls fever, and allays pam 

 and inflammation; and is the only medicine, excepting 

 hellabore, which can excite the horse, the ox or the ele- 

 phant, to vomit. Although these animals cannot vomit, 

 it is the one to cause them to make the effort. If, ac- 

 cording to the founder of homoepa^thy, mercury was a 



