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is practically non-poisonous. Finely pulverized, air- 
slaked lime is extensively used for dusting on sores, 
harness-galls and suppurating surfaces, and gives 
admirable results. Common salt is also used as an 
antiseptic in the strength of five to ten per cent by 
weight, dissolved in water. Creolin is a good and 
popular antiseptic and deodorizer; it is mixed with 
water combined in the strength of one to two per cent. 
Not all antiseptics work equally well on all wounds. 
Sometimes a certain antiseptic will give excellent re- 
sults, and on an apparently similar wound does not do 
as well. In such cases it is well to cease and to try some 
other. It is better to become familiar with one or two 
good antiseptics than to dabble with a great variety 
with which one is not familiar. 
