Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

MEDICINES USED IN THE TREATMENT OF CATTLE. 485
Lead, Sugar of— (Superacetate of Lead.)—This, mixed with
the subacetate of copper (verdigris, which see,) forms a useful caustic
for the destruction of fungous growths.
Goulard's Extract.—(Liquor Plumbi SuperacetAtis.)—When
the skin is unbroken, this preparation of lead is completely thrown
away, whether used either as a lotion to subdue inflammation, or to
disperse tumors or effusions. It is principally serviceable, applied
in a very dilute form, to abate inflammation of the eye.
White Lead "(Subcaubonas Plumbi) is the basis of a cooling,
drying ointment, used chiefly for excoriations, or"superficial wounds.
Lime. Carbonate of Lime, Chalk,—This is a useful ingredient
in all the drinks given in" diarrhoea or dysentery. In every stage of
these diseases there is a tendency in the fourth stomach, and perhaps
in the intestines, to generate a considerable quantity of acid, than^
which a greater source of irritation can scarcely be imagined. The
chalk, or the alkali of the chalk, will unite with this acid, and neu-
tralize it, and render it harmless. In the diarrhoea of the calf it is
absolutely indispensable, for there the acid principle is frequently
developed to a great degree. The dose will vary from a drachm to
an ounce.
Chloride of Lime.—The list of medicines for cattle does not contain
anything more valuable than this. As a disinfectant—if the
walls, the floor, and the furniture of the cow-house or stable, are
twice or thrice well washed with it, the sound cattle may return to
the building with perfect safety, however contagious may have been
the disease of those that had previously perished there. Applied to"
the pudenda of the cow that has aborted, it destroys that peculiar
smell which causes abortion in others, more readily than any prepara-
tion of the most powerful or nauseous ingredient. In blain, garget,
foul in the foot, and sloughing ulcers of every description, it removes
the fetor ; and, if the process of decomposition has not proceeded
too far, gives a healthy surface to the ulcers which nothing else
could bring about—and, administered internally in blain, in the malignant
epidemic, and in diarrhoea and dysentery, it is of essential
service. In the last disease it is particularly beneficial in changing
the nature of the intestinal discharge, and depriving it of its putridity
and infection, and disposing the surface of the intestine to take on a
more healthy character. Half an ounce of the powder, dissolved in
a gallon of water, will give a solution of sufficient strength, both as
a disinfectant applied to the cow-house, and for external and internal
use as it regards the animal.
Linseed.—Nothing can compare with the linseed meal as an
emollient poultice— 5* the ulcer is foul, a little of the chloride of
lime should be mixed with it. If the object of the poultice is to
bring an ulcer into a proper state of suppuration, a little common
turpentine may be added ; but the cruelly-torturifig caustics of the