HONEV — IPECACUANA. Y09 



proportion of spirit, is a good medicine in 

 cases of natulency and indigestion, and i* 

 the most convenient form in which it can 

 be given. 



HYSSOP. This plant has been esteemed 

 as a pectoral, but it is seldom employed in 

 modern practice ; nor as a veterinary medi- 

 cine is it worth notice. 



INFUSIONS. A medicated hquid, made 

 by pouring boiling or cold water on any me- 

 dicine whose virtues it is capable of extracfi- 



msf. 



INDIAN PINK. Though the root of this 

 plant is often employed for the purpose of 

 destroying worms in the human body, yet 

 it does not seem at all adapted to the same 

 purpose in the horse. 



IPECACUANA. Tliere are few medicines 

 of greater importance in medical practice 

 than the root of inecacuana ; but it has so 

 little effect on the horse, though given in 

 very expensive doses, that it is not likely 

 ever to be considered as an article of our 

 Materia Medica. Its principal use, in hu- 

 man medicine, is to excite vomiting, an ef- 

 fect it cannot produce in the horse in the 

 largest dose. Combined with opium, it 



