874 HOESE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. 



Linseed Oil. — Oleum Idni. This is a good and safe 

 purgative for the horse, and should be given by farmers 

 and non-professional persons iu preference to any other 

 article. The English veterinary surgeons use linseed oil 

 for colic in the horse, in the following combination : Lin- 

 seed oil, one pint, and two ounces each of oil of turpentine 

 and laudanum. In cases of choking, in either horses or 

 cattle, a half pint of linseed oil should be poured down the 

 throat, so that by its emollient properties the substance 

 may pass readily down the gullet. 



Doses. For horses, one to two pints is the dose used for 

 a purgative. For scalds and burns, linseed oil is mixed 

 with lime-water. (See Lime-water.) 



Liquorice Eoot.^ — Glyoyrrhiza Radix. This was for- 

 merly in use for making balls for horses, but it is now 

 superseded by molasses. 



Lobelia Inflata. — Indian Tobacco. This medicine is 

 in great use by the eclectic physicians in the United States 

 as an emetic, which fact, I believe, has induced Dr. Dadd 

 to recommend it to veterinary surgeons and horsemen of 

 this country. Does the Doctor not yet know that the 

 horse, the ox and the sheep, cannot vomit ? Therefore, it 

 is not entitled to a position, for such purpose, in the veteri- 

 nary Materia Medica. 



Logwood. — Hcematoxylon Campechianum. This is a 

 valuable medicine not well known, and consequently not 

 appreciated. 



Use. One of the very best astringents for binding the 

 bowels in diarrhoea and dysentery, in all animals, and 

 especially when accompanied with irritation of the bowels. 

 Logwood is cheap, sold in chips, and is prepared and given 

 in the following manner; 



