The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins.
- Albert A. Hopkins
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(Y eterinary—Dogs) drops of brandy now and then. Keep the patient on milk diet, milk puddings, etc. Laxative Draft.—Magnesium sulphate, 2y2 drams; potassium nitrate, 30 gr.; tincture of jalap, 25 m.; water, enough to make^ 1 oz. Mange.—This is a parasitic disease, there being two kinds, one caused by the sarcoptes canis and the. other, and more slow and persistent kind, by the demodex folliculorum. 1. —For the first kind a wash made of equal parts of the oils of tar, olives and turpentine is good, or an ointment con¬ sisting of: Sulphur, 1 oz.; potassium carbonate, 30 gr.; petrolatum, 4 oz. 2. —The other kind of mange, which causes the dog to rub his back under chair rounds, etc., is treated by closely clipping the hair over the affected por¬ tions—along the spine—and rubbing every day with: Creosote, 4 drams; olive oil, 7 oz.; solution of potassa, 1 oz. 3. —Yellow mercurous iodide, 10 gr.; salicylic acid, )4 oz.; sublimed sulphur, 3 oz.; pine tar, 3 oz.; coal tar, washed, 3 oz.; sturgeon oil, enough to make 2 pt. Shake well and apply at night; wash off in the morning. 4. —Soft soap, 4 parts; B-naphthol, 1 part; storax, 2 parts; tobacco extract, 3 parts. To be applied to one-third of the skin at the most for three consecutive days. After three applications, wash the whole body with water in which ordinary carbolic acid soap has been dissolved. 5. —The following from Dieterich’s Manual may answer your purpose : Po¬ tassium sulphide, 50 parts; tar, 50 parts; glycerine, 50 parts; soft soap, 350 parts. Heat gently and mix well. Two table¬ spoonfuls of this is mixed with a pint of warm water and the animal washed with the solution, which is allowed to dry on the skin. Two days after a washing with soap and water is given and the solution applied as before; the treatment being continued in this way as long as necessary. Rheumatism.—Wine of colcliicum, 3 m.; sodium salicylate, 5 gr.; water, enough to make 1 dram. Two such doses to be given daily. The affected parts should also be rubbed with a good lini¬ ment every day, and the dog kept on a milk diet. SItin, To Make Fine.—Give a teaspoon¬ ful of tar, says Mayer, made up with oatmeal. Tonic Pills.—1.—Gentian, 15 gr.; gin¬ ger, 5 gr.; cascarilla, 15 gr. Make a pill, and give one such every day. 2.—Pil. blaud, 5 gr.; acid, arsenios. (Hog Cholera) 1-16 gr. Ft. pill. Dose, one every morning after food for small dogs. For larger dogs, one night and morning. These pills can be given in all skin diseases of dogs, with marked benefit; they are also very use¬ ful as a tonic for dogs whose age begins to tell on them. 3.—Blue mass, 1 dram ; aloes, 2 drams ; myrrh, 1% drams; benzoin, 1% drams; balsam of peru, 1)4 drams. Make 15 pills and give one night and morning. Vomiting, To Prevent.—Bismuth sub¬ nitrate, 8 oz.; opium, 1)4 gr.; gum arabic, 8 gr.; sugar, 15 gr. Make a powder and give at once. It-is not al¬ ways best to try to prevent vomiting, as nature frequently comes to the relief. Worms.—1.—Areca nuts given to a dog are a sovereign remedy for tape¬ worms. The nuts should be freshly ground and the dose is 2 grains to each pound of dog, given at night and fol¬ lowed next morning by a brisk purga¬ tive, as castor oil. 2. —As there are different kinds of worms a mixture which contains a dose of each kind is not bad, the following formula being for something of this class : Santonin, 2 gr.; powdered glass, 5 gr.; powdered areca nuts, 10 gr. Oil of male fern sufficient to make a pill. 3. —Powdered areca nuts, 5 gr.; san¬ tonin, 1 gr.; molasses, q. s. to mass. Fiat pil. Dose, one or two pills, according to the size of the dog. Wounds and Sore Feet, Astringent Lotion for.—Bruised oak bark, 2 oz.; catechu, 1 oz.; water, 3 pt. Boil to 1 point, and strain. Hog Cholera. No form of treatment has yet been found, so far as we are able to learn, which is in every way satisfactory. The disease is a contagious one and prevent¬ ive measures and the enforcement of proper sanitary regulations count quite as much, if not more, than medicine. The veterinarian of the Indiana Experiment Station, in discussing the subject, makes the following observations: “The hogs should not have access to ponds or wallows, as this affords favor¬ able conditions for the germs. The drink¬ ing water should be from deep wells. The food should be clean and often changed. If a hog has been separated from the herd and recovers it should not be returned to the herd for several weeks, as it is capable of giving the disease to others, although it may appear to be per¬ fectly well. Hogs should not be kept in pens where the disease has been for [52]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31361523_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
