262 HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. 



of carbonate of soda. This is a valuable article in the 

 treatment of diseases of horses and cattle. The sulphite 

 of soda possesses the power of neutralizing the action of 

 zumins, ferments, or leavens, when introduced into the 

 circulation. Professor Polli, of Milan, has clearly de- 

 monstrated, that this substance is capable of purifying the 

 blood of noxious matters, and further, he has by his ex- 

 periments upon dogs, proved that glanders can be cured 

 by it, for he says, that forty-five grains of the virus of 

 glanders taken from the nares of the nose of a glandered 

 horse, and injected into the circulation of a dog, after the 

 disease had shown itself in the dog, it was readily cured by 

 the administration of the sulphite of soda. Upwards of 

 seventy cases have thus been experimented upon by this dis- 

 tinguished professor. All going to show the value of soda, 

 as a purifier of the blood, by its alterative effects. 



Sulphite of soda is indicated in all cases of eruptions on 

 the skin, in farcy, glanders and purpura in the horse, and in 

 pleuro-pneumonia and rinderpest, etc. in cattle. Wherever 

 pus is thrown out as a product of disease, the sulphite 

 of soda should be given. Dogs with distemper should 

 have it to keep the circulation pure of pus. The blood of 

 the dog becomes contaminated in this way, and hence, the 

 good dog falls a victim to the scourge of fine bred animals. 



Dose, — For horses and cattle, the dose is from half an 

 ounce, to one ounce ; given twice in the day. For dogs, 

 twenty grains given in camphor water. In farcy and 

 glander or other diseases, accompanied with debility, the 

 soda should be combined with gentian and other tonics. 



Spanish Fly. — Lytta Cantharides. — An insect ground 

 into powder, and mixed with lard or oil, make what is 

 familiarly known as a blister. The Spanish fly is, besides 

 its blistering qualities, a very valuable internal medicine. 



