DRUGS WHICH BESTROY MICROORGANISMS AND PARASITES 57 



Dogs. 



Santonin Spigelia Oil of chenopodium 



Anthelmintics removing pinte)orm.s : 



By mouth, cathartics, oil of chenopodium, thymol. 



Rectal injections containing salt, solution of lime, quassia, iron salts, 

 phenol (1^ of 1% solution), tannic acid (3ss-0i), and oil of turpentine 

 (3ss-0ii) are used to destroy these parasites infesting the lower bowel. 



Anthelmintics removing strongyles : 

 Thymol Copper sulphate 



Oil of chenopodium Chloroform 



Turpentine 



Anthelmintics removing hots (Gastrophilus spp.) 



Carbon disulphide 



Anthelm,intics against lungworms: 



Carbolic acid (Intratracheal injections) 



Turpentine (Intratracheal injections) 



Chloroform (Injections in nostrils) 



Vermifwges are purgatives (as aloes and oil) used to expel dead 

 parasites from the bowels after the administration of anthelmintics. 



Parasiticides, or antiparasitics, are drugs which destroy parasites, 

 more especially those inhabiting the skin. We may classify them as 

 those used : 



(1) Against fungi of ringworm and favus (Trichophyton spp.) 

 Mercurial ointments Chrysarobin oint- Salicylic acid 

 Tincture of iodine ment Boric acid 

 Glycerite of phenol Cantharides Thymol 

 Creolin Croton Oil Sulphurous acid 

 Creosote Formalin 



(2) Against ray fungi of lumpy jam, etc. (Discomyces or Acti- 

 nomyces spp.) 



Tincture of iodine Iodoform 



Potassium iodide Copper sulphate 



Glycerite of carbolic acid Corrosive sublimate 



(3) Against fungi of thrush or aphtha, sporadic aphthous stomat- 

 itis (Oidium albicans). 



Boric acid Alum 



Potassium chlorate Salicylic acid 



Potassium permanganate Hydrochloric acid 



(4) Ayainst mites of scab, itch or mange. 

 Sulphur Styrax 

 Lime-sulphur dips Phenol 



Sulphur dioxide Corrosive sublimate 



Tar Salicylic acid 



Crude petroleum Cantharides 

 Peruvian balsam 



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