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combined with a few grains of opium, and a little ground 

 ginger, or a few drops of the tincture, commonly called the 

 essence. 



Styptics. — Substances having the quality of stopping 

 bleedings from wounds. Examples : — perchloride of iron, 

 cobwebs, the hot iron, and the bandage. 



Sudorifics. — Medicines which produce sweating. 



Sugar of Milk. — Much used by homocpathists, both 

 domestic and veterinary, in the form of powder, but oftener 

 in the form of globules or small pellets. Not recommended 

 for the treatment of any disease. Molasses is the best form 

 in which to give sugar to animals, and is useful in cases of 

 sick cows, mixed in a drench. 



Sugar of Lead. — (See Acetate of Lead.) 



Sulphuric Acid. — (See Acids.) 



Sulphur — Brimstone. — Sulphur is kept in the drug 

 stores in three forms, Jlower of sulphur, milk of sulphur, 

 and sulphur vivum. 



Use. — Sulphur is chiefly used for skin diseases, in the 

 form of an ointment. Sulphur is believed by many per- 

 sons to be a great preventive of diseases and distempers 

 in all animals, and is one of the ingredients of an incon- 

 gruous mass extolled and recommended by the Hon. Isaac 

 Newton, ; Commissioner of Agriculture, as a preventive 

 of cattle diseases. "Whatever may be the medicinal virtue 

 possessed by sulphur, it certainly has no prophylactic ef- 

 fects mixed with tar, etc. The simple ointment of sulphur 

 is made as follows : take one part of the flower, or sulphur 

 vivum, and mix with four parts of lard. In winter, when 

 lard is hard, oil should be used instead, thus forming a 

 liniment of sulphur, and is more easy of application. 



JJoses. — Sulphur as a laxative for horses and cattle, 

 should be given in doses from one to three ounces, and 



