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administered in gruel, in the form of a drench. For dogs, 

 the dose is one to two drachms. Not recommended as an 

 internal medicine. 



Sulphurous Acid Gas. — This is one of the most 

 powerful disinfectants we have. The great objection to its 

 general use for this purpose is, its poisonous character when 

 breathed or inhaled to any extent. But from recent ex- 

 periments instituted by Dr. James Dewor, of Kirkcaldy, 

 Scotland, for testing the efficacy of sulphurous acid gas as a 

 disinfectant, results are shown which lead to the conviction, 

 that the diseases such as cholera, in man, and rinderpest 

 and pleuro-pneumonia in cattle, may not only be prevented, 

 but much modified by this, hitherto, considered poisonous 

 gas. The method of generating sulphurous acid gas is 

 very simple and inexpensive. It is only necessary to 

 have a small chaffer of red hot cinders from a coal fire, 

 set a small crucible on the hot cinders, and place a piece 

 of sulphur-stick about as large as a man's thumb into it. 

 This will fumigate a large cattle shed, or stable, in twenty 

 minutes. Contrary to expectation, the animals seem to en- 

 joy it, and at the same time it acts as a tonic on man and 

 beast. The shed or other house must be well ventilated, 

 by having the windows a little open during, after, and 

 before the fumigation. Sanitary rules must be enforced 

 in regard to cleanliness, removal of dung-heaps, etc. 

 During the prevalence of such epizootics as are above 

 named, the fumigation may be made according to the 

 foregoing directions, four or five times in the day. It is 

 further said, that the treatment has not only cured some 

 cases of the above named diseases, but mange, ring-worm 

 and lice have also vanished before it, and that greasy 

 heels in horses have also been cured by it, while severe 

 cases of tubercles of the lungs, glanders, and farcy have 



