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Action and Use. — It is not used internally to any great 
extent, but is used externally for healing washes, such as in 
white lotion and eye wash, fully explained in Chapter V. 
26. Salt or Sodium Chloride. 
Source. — Common Salt is obtained from brine pumped 
from the ground. 
Action and Use. — It is an essential article of food, and 
something every animal should have regularly. Horses, 
cattle, sheep and pigs should have it in front of them all the 
time for, it should be remembered, stock cannot thrive well 
without it. Rock salt is the best form in which to have it, as 
the animals can lick it whenever they want it. It is used 
externally by throwing a handful of salt in a pail of lukewarm 
prater, and in this form it makes a very eflPectual wash for 
bathing swellings and wounds. 
27. Salts. 
Source. — Salts are used in two forms, Epsom and Glober. 
Both kinds are in a white crystal form. 
EPSOM SALTS. 
Action and Use. — Its chief action is as a physic for cattle, 
sheep and pigs, and is used to a great extent, as you will 
notice on reading the treatment of the above mentioned 
animals. Although salts is a good physic it should not be 
given to horses, aloes being far the best physic for them. 
Dose. — Cattle take from one pound to one and one-half 
pounds dissolved in a quart of lukewarm water with a table- 
spoonful each of ginger and common soda and given as a 
drench. This physic takes twenty-four hours to operate on 
the bowels. It is always best after giving a dose to wait 
twenty-four hours for an action before giving any more. 
Sheep and pigs take one-quarter of a pound dissolved in a 
pint of lukewarm water with a teaspoonful each of ginger 
and bicarbonate soda and given as a drench. Wait from twelve 
to sixteen hours for an action on the bowels before giving 
any more. 
GLAUBER SALTS. 
Action and Use. — It is not so much used *as the Epsom 
Salts, but is used in horses and cattle for their blood by 
