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Starch. — A good remedy in diarrhoea in all animala, 



when combined with a few grains of opium, and a little 

 ground ginger, or a few drops of the tincture, commonly 

 called the essence. 



Styptics. — Substances having the quality of stopping 

 bleedings from wounds. Examples : Perchloride of iron, 

 cobwebs, the hot iron, and the bandage. 



Sudorifics. — Medicines which produce sweating. 



Sugar of Milk. — Much used by homceopathists, both 

 domestic and veterinary, in the form of powder, but oftener 

 in the form of globules or small pellets. Not recommended 

 for the treatment of any disease. Molasses is the best form 

 in which to give sugar to animals, and it is useful in cases 

 of sick cows, mixed in a drench. 



Sugar of Lead. — (See Acetate of Lead.) 



Sulphuric Acid. — (See Acids.) 



Sulphur. — Brimstone, — Sulphur is kept in the drug 

 stores in three forms, flowers of sulphur, milk of sulphur, 

 and sulphur vivum. 



Use. Sulphur is chiefly used for skin diseases, in the 

 form of an ointment. It is believed by many persons to 

 be a great preventive of diseases and distempers in all 

 animals, and is one of the ingredients of an incongruous 

 mass extolled and recommended by the Hon. Isaac Newton, 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, as a preventive of cattle dis- 

 eases. Whatever may be the medicinal virtue possessed 

 by sulphur, it certainly has no prophylactic effects mixed 

 with tar, etc. The simple ointment of sulphur is made as 

 follows : One part of the flowers, or sulphur vivum, mixed 

 with four parts of lard. In winter, when lard is hard, 



