54 SYNOPSIS OP VETERINARY 



Acidum Nitricum Dilutum — Dilute Nitric Acid. — It is 10 

 per cent strength. 



Doses. — Horses, 2 drs. to 1 oz. ; cattle, 4 drs. to 2 oz. ; sheep 

 and pigs, 15 to 30 m.; dogs, 3 to 20 m. 



Antagonists and Incompatibles. — Toxicology and antidotes, 

 the same as all other mneral acids (given under sulphuric acid). 



Physiological Action. — Irritant and corrosive, especially de- 

 structive when used in concentrated solution. It leaves a tan 

 yellow or brown stain on the skin. It is an oxidizing agent, and 

 is especially used as a hepatic stimulant and tonic. 



Therapy. — Useful in horses convalescing from influenza and 

 other debilitating disease ; also in torpor of liver. 



Externally it is used on warts, chancres, ulcers, fungous and 

 malignant growths, to remove hardened and thickened skin as in 

 mallenders and sallenders, as a caustic in poisoned wounds, foot- 

 rot, caries, etc. When used for this purpose, protect the sur- 

 rounding tissues by greasing. Freely diluted with water, it abates 

 itching of nettle-rash (1 in 200). 



ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM— Phosphoric Acid.— -Full 

 strength is 85 per cent acid, colorless, sour, syrupy liquid. 



ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM DILUTUM, dilute phos- 

 phoric acid is 10 per cent. It is not so corrosive as other mineral 

 acids and is thought not to be so apt to derange digestion as the 

 others when long continued. It is a nerve tonic, anti-phosphatic, 

 aphrodisiac and anti-febrile. Very useful to stop thirst of dia- 

 betics. It is given in febrile disease as a tonic and refrigerant, 

 in nervous diseases, jaundice, dyspepsia, etc. 



Dose. — For horse, 2 drs. to 1 oz. ; dogs, 2 to 30 m. 



It is often prescribed as a tonic combined with nux vomica, 



Tr. chloride of iron, gentian, or any of the stomachics. 



]J Acidi phosphorici dil. 3 iv. ss. 



Strych. sulph. grs. xv. 



Tr. Ferri chloridi § vj. 



Fl. Ext. Gentian rad. q. s. ad 3 xxiv. 

 M. Sig. — 2 ozs. 3 times daily in ^ to I pint water. 



RECAPITULATION OF MINERAL ACIDS— -They are: 



1, sulphuric; 2, hydrochloric; 3, nitric, and 4, phosphoric, with 



their combinations of aromatic sulphuric acid and nitro-muriatic 



acid, and the Dilute preparations all of which are of 10 per cent 



strength. They are all escharotics, abstracting the water from the 



