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purgative for the horse, and should be given by farmers 

 and non professional persons in preference to any other 

 article. The English veterinary surgeons use linseed oil 

 for colic in the horse, in the following combination : Lin- 

 seed oil, one pint, and two ounces each, of oil of turpen- 

 tine and laudanum. In cases of choking, in either horses, 

 or cattle, a half pint of linseed oil should be poured 

 down the throat, so that by its emollient properties the 

 substance may pass readily down the gullet. 



Doses. — For horses, one to two pints is the dose used 

 for a purgative. For scalds and burns, linseecj oil is 

 mixed with lime water. (See Lime Water.) 



Liquorice Root. — G-lyeyrrMza Radix, — This was 

 formerly in use for making balls for horses, but it is now 

 superseded by molasses. 



Lobelia Inflata. — Indian Tobacco. — This medicine 

 is in great use by the eclectic physicians in the L^nited 

 States as an emetic, which fact, I believe, has induced Dr. 

 Dadd to recommend it to veterinary surgeons and horsemen 

 of this country. Does the Doctor not yet know that the 

 horse, the ox and the sheep, cannot vomit ? Therefore, it is 

 not entitled to such a place in the veterinary Materia 

 Medica, 



Logwood. — Hcematoxylon Campechianum. — This is a 

 valuable medicine and not well known, and consequently 

 not appreciated. 



Use. — One of the very best astringents for binding the 

 bowels in diarrhoea and dysentery, in all animals, espe- 

 cially when accompanied with irritation of the bowels. 

 Logwood is cheap, and sold in chips, and is prepared and 

 given in the following manner : 



