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A. A. HOLCOMBE. 
“ Requisitions and estimates for veterinary supplies will here - 
after be made in conformity with the allowances provided for in 
the Standard Supply Table, contained in the report of the 
Board. 
“Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Nov. 15, 1878. 
“The Board of Officers convened at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 
by virtue of paragraph 12, Special Orders No. 183, Headquarters 
of the Army, Adjutant-General’s Office, dated August 24, 1878, 
and paragraph 7, Special Orders No. 211, Headquarters of the 
Army, Adjutant-General’s Office, dated October 1, 1878, has the 
honor to submit the following report on the subject of ‘A Stand' 
ard Supply-Table of Veterinary Medicines and Instruments for 
Use iu the Army.’ ” 
“ standard supply table.” 
[The table covers too much paper to be given in full; there¬ 
fore, each article is named, and the quantity for 100 horses, hos¬ 
pital service, for a period of three months is given.— Author.) 
“ Medicines. —Acid arsenious (arsenic), 2 oz.; acid carbolic, 
crystallized, 14 oz.; acid carbolic, for disinfection, 2 lbs.; acid 
muriatic, 16 oz. ; acid nitric, 8 oz.; acid salicjdic, 3 lbs.; acid 
tannic, 14 lbs.; aconite, tincture of, 1 lb.; alcohol, 4 gals.; aloes, 
20 oz. ; alum, 2 lbs.; ammonia, acetate of, 2 lbs.; ammonia, 
arom. spts. of, 2 lbs,; ammonia, solution of, 3 gals.; ammonia, 
carbonate of, 4 lbs.; antimony and potassa, tartrate of, 2 oz. ; 
atropia, sulphate of, ^ oz.; belladonna, alcoholic ext. of, 4 oz.; 
blistering liquid, 2 qts.; borax, 2 lbs.; camphor, 3 lbs. ; catechu, 
1 lb.; castor oil, 2 gals.; chalk, prepared, 2 lbs.; chloroform, 
purified, 3 lbs.; cinchona bark, pow’d., 2 lbs.; cinchona, fluid ext. 
of, 4 lbs. ; colchicum seed, ^ lb.; collodion, £ lb.; copper, sulph. 
of, 4 oz.; cosmoline, veterinary, 15 lbs.; ether, sulphuric, 4 lbs.; 
ether, spirit of nitrous, 2 qts.; flaxseed meal, 40 lbs.; ginger, 
powd., 3 lbs.; iodine, 3 oz. ; iron, sulph. of, ^ lb.; iron, tinct. of 
the chloride of, 2 lbs.; jalap, § lb.; lead, acetate of, 2 lbs.; 
linseed oil, 2 gals.; magnesia, sulph. of, 24 lbs.; mercurial oint¬ 
ment, 2 lbs. ; mercury, biniodide of, 2 oz.; mercury, corrosive 
chloride of, 2 oz.; mercury, mild chloride of, 2 lbs.; morphia, 
