CURE OF POLL-EVIL AND FTSTULOUS WITHERS. 199 
Styptic Fluids. No. 2. 
Minims. 
No. 1. Sulphuric Acid. 150 to 250 
Distilled Water. 1000 1000 
No. 3. Acetic Acid (Vinegar). 500 — 
Chloride of Sodium (Marine Salt) 100 — 
To make Nos. 1 and 2, add the acid to the water by very 
little at a time, and agitate the mixture, whereby the heat 
evolved will be uniformly distributed, and thus the breaking of 
the (glass) vessel guarded against. 
Styptic Powder . 
Grains. 
No. 4. Calcined or Desiccated Alum.... 500 
Sulphate of Copper. 100 
Both to be reduced, before mixing, to impalpable powders. 
Caustic Pastes. 
Grains. 
No. 5. Calcined Alum . 100 
Sulphuric Acid, in sufficient quantity to 
make a paste of the consistence of 
new honey. 
Grains. 
No. 6. Calcined Alum . 100 
Fluid Styptic, No. 2, a sufficient quan¬ 
tity to form a paste of the consistence 
of the former. 
To make these caustic pastes, stir the powders in an earthen 
vessel, while the acid is being added very gradually, from 
time to time until the mixture has grown cool. By so doing 
the formation of crystals will be prevented, which would other¬ 
wise interfere with its application. 
Recueilde Med. Vet., Sept., 1851. 
CURE OF POLL-EVIL AND FISTULOUS WITHERS, BY 
THE ADMINISTRATION OF NUX VOMICA 
INTERNALLY. 
By Eck, District Veterinary Surgeon, Oletzko, Prussia. 
(Translated by Mr. Ernes.) 
Herr Eck informs the reader that poll-evil and fistulous 
withers are a great plague to the veterinary surgeon, cases by 
which he gets very little credit, while their cure is often 
protracted for months, even in the hands of the most skilful; 
added to which, by the usual practice of deeply incising, the 
