256 . HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICi:^ES. 



cellent application to the skin of animals having the itch 

 and skin diseases. 



Peppermint. — Mentha Piperita. — The essence of this 

 garden plant is sometimes given to horses having colic, 

 and given in doses of twenty drops. Dogs can have, 

 three drops for a dose, in the same disease. 



Pepper. 



(1.) Black Pepper. — Piper JSligrum. — Occasionally 

 given to horses affected with colic. 



(2.) Jamaica Pepper. — Pimento — Allspice. — This is 

 a valuable medicine for horses and cattle affected with 

 fever, loss of appetite and indigestion. 



Doses. — From three to five drachms, and is given in 

 combination with ammonia. 



(3.) Capsicum. — Cayenne Pepper. — This is also used 

 for the same purpose as the above, and given in from 

 twenty to thirty grain doses. 



Pepsin. — The active principle of the gastric juice of 

 animals. Its cost prevents its use in calves having diar- 

 rhoea, when the discharges are like milk. A good sub- 

 stitute for pepsin is rennet, which farmers should have 

 about them; not only for cheese-making purposes, but for 

 use in looseness, or scours in calves. It assists the sto- 

 mach to digest the milk, which, in diarrhoea, lays upon 

 the stomach, without being digested or changed. Hence 

 the white diarrhoea, so often seen in calves. 



Petroleum. — Bock Oil. — This substance was for- 

 merly highly recommended in chest diseases, but it has 

 been succeeded by more certain and successful drugs for 

 this purpose. However, it is still occasionally used as 

 an external application for sores, and for the destruction 



