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the bowels, mustard is useful. The mode of application 

 of mustard is as follows : If the hair of the part be long, 

 cut it off, then foment the part with warm water, and 

 immediately rub into the parts a handful of the best flour 

 of mustard. This is more effectual than laying a paste or 

 poultice without rubbing. 



Volatile Oil of mustard makes a good counter-irritant, 

 when a few drops are rubbed into the skin. Vinegar 

 added to mustard does not, as is thought, produce a 

 better effect. Warm water answers every purpose. 



Myrrh. — A gum resin, used in the form of a tincture 

 arid a compound tincture, for sores, and a good applica- 

 tion in sore mouth, from the bit, or other cause. 



Narcotics are medicines which act upon the brain, 

 and thereby allay pain. Example : Opium and its prep- 

 arations, aconite and chloroform. 



Neat's Foot Oil. — Used for skin diseases, and for 

 allaying the irritation of blisters and keeping the skin 

 from cracking. 



Nervines. — Medicines relieving pain, without pro- 

 ducing narcotism. 



Nitric Acid. — (See Acids.) 



Nitre. — Saltpetre. Thismedicine haslongbeenusedas 

 a diuretic, and as a febrifuge in low fevers. Cheaper and 

 better medicines are daily in use for this purpose. Nitre is 

 not a cheap medicine, nor yet is it an indispensable one. 

 The days are past when emetic, tartar, nitre, and digitalis 

 were the remedies used in cases of inflammation, irrita- 

 tion and fever. This formula has in its day deceived m any 

 a man, and has been the means whereby many thousands 

 of valuable animals have been lost. Wherever nitre 



