268 HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. 



Tar- — Pix Liquida. — Tar is not now used internally 

 to the extent it formerly was. To cattle it is still given 

 in a disease of the throat called dyers. For this purpose 

 egg shells are filled with good Barbadoes tar, and sus- 

 pended on the end of a split stick, and gently pushed 

 down the throat of the ox. As an external application, 

 tar is still used on sores about cattle, to keep the flies 

 off, and is used to make stopping for horses feet singly, 

 and mixed with clay, etc. It is kept in every horse- 

 shoeing shop for putting on the soles, and kept there 

 with cotton, and a leather sole nailed on with the shoe. 



Oil of Tar. — This is an excellent application 

 when mixed with equal parts of sweet, or some fish oil, 

 to promote the growth of horn of the foot of the horse. 

 To give it a dark color to suit the foot, lamp black may 

 be stirred in, in sufiicient quantity to make a black hoof 

 ointment, which will be found an excellent formula for 

 this purpose. 



Tartar Emetic. — (See Antimony.) 



Tobacco. — Nicotiana Tahaciim. — Tobacco is used as jt 

 medicine, principally in skin diseases, and for the de- 

 struction of lice and other insects, in the wool of sheep. 

 Tobacco smoke is a favorite remedy Avith some veterina- 

 rians, for the removal and killing of worms, and in con- 

 stipation, and in colic. For these purposes, better and 

 safer agents are in every day use. Tobacco in all, or 

 any of its forms, is dangerous, being followed by great 

 sickness, nausea and prostration, from which many ani- 

 mals are ultimately destroyed. 



Tragacanth.— (See Gum.) 



Turpentine. — Terihenthce, — The various varieties of 

 turpentine in market. 



