CHAPTER IV. 
MEDICINES AND IN STRTTMENTS — WHAT TO KEEP. 
z. DISSECTION. n. ACTION OP MEDICINES. III. MEDICINES TO BE KEPT, AND DOSES. 
IV. SIMPLE AND VALUABLE RECIPES. V. FORMS OF CLYSTERS. VI. INFUSIONS. 
VII. ANTI-8PASM0DICS. VIII. FOMENTATIONS. IX. MUCILAGES. X. WASHES, 
—XI. POULTICES. XII. FUMIGATIONS. XIII. TINCTURE FOB WOUNDS, 
I. Disseotion, 
In the dissection of cattle the axe and meat §aw, and butcher’s knifo 
must be largely depended on, in the hands of farmers, since all that is 
necessary is to get at the diseased parts to note their appearance and the 
seat of the disease, the symptoms having been previously carefully noted. 
This matter has been treated of in diseases of the horse, chapter XIX., 
article Dissection, to which the reader is referred. See page 509, 
H. Action of Medicines. 
The action of medicines, doses for horse, ox, sheep and swine is also 
treated of in chapter ,XIX., of the horse, together with much other vat* 
uable matter applicable to animals generally. See pages 500-516. 
III. Medioines to be Kept, and Doses. 
It will not be necessary to keep more than a small stock of the medi- 
cines in most common use, or such as may be required in an emergency. 
Those adapted to the horse, will, as a rule be also adapted to other stock. 
In chapter XIX. a pretty full list will be found, with the appropriate 
doses for cattle, sheep and swine, as well as the horse ; also the proper 
proportionate dose for animals of various ages up to the adult. It will 
not be necessary to repeat them here. See page 511. 
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