302 POISONS. 



M. Brugnone very successfully administered diluted white 

 wine vinegar to sheep poisoned with corn - crowfoot. They 

 were all comparatively well on the succeeding day. Mr. 

 Spooner quotes Mr. Coates, of Gainsborough, England, as 

 saying that three or four score of sheep poisoned by soot — aU 

 those which had not become paralyzed — recovered on the 

 administration of cathartics until their bowels were well 

 acted upon. "They were then fed on linseed cake, and 

 ultimately did well." It is a popular impression in this 

 country, how well founded I do not know, that a strong 

 decoction of the white ash, made by boiling the bruised twigs 

 for an hour, and administered from half a gill to a gill, 

 repeating the dose if necessary, is a sure antidote to the 

 effects of laurel, if taken within a day of the poisoning.* 

 Drenches of milk and castor oil are also resorted to for the 

 same object. 



Active aperient medicine, so administered as to have its 

 full effect, (see page 299,) is usually given to poisoned sheep. 

 Mr. Touatt recommends, with obvious propriety, that " warm 

 water be injected into the paunch by means of Read's 

 apparatus, pumped out again, and this repeated until either 

 vomiting is excited or the poison has been rendered harmless 

 by dilution." There is a simple and inexpensive stomach 

 pump composed of a hollow ball and perforated tube of India 

 rubber worked by alternately squeezing out the air and fluid 

 from the ball, for sale in all our American drug stores, which 

 would answer for the above purpose admirably. Every 

 analogy goes to show that cathartics are not rapid enough in 

 their effects ; and they do not, at best, avert the destructive 

 results of virulent poisons which have been received into the 

 stomach in quantities sufficient to produce death. 



Ldtplammation of the Rumen or Paunch. — This is 

 unknown in the United States, and as it is of very rare 

 occurrence even in England, where ovine maladies generally 

 flourish so vigorously, we have not much reason to fear its 

 future advent — accordingly space will not be consumed here 

 in describing it. 



Obstruction of the Maniplus. — It would appear from 

 Mr. Touatt's statements (page 435,) that this is more common 



* Since the above was written I find this remedy given in Allen's " Domestic 

 Animals," and also the following:—" Pour a gill of melted lard down the throat." 



