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Show IroS DRUGS GIVEN TO LIVE STOCK Medicines Are Administered by People Without Knowledge of Action Study Symptoms of Animals. Frequently drugs are administered by people without any knowledge of their action. One individual only recently re-cently asked what he should give his horse when aconite and nitre had failed to cure. It is always best for one to know the 'action of a drug before be-fore it is administered to live stock. A thorough study of the symptoms of the animal should be made before any drugs are given. Just because certain drugs have succeeded in some neigh-Dor's neigh-Dor's horses, there is no reason they .will cure yours. To illustrate a horse Is suffering from colic. A dose of opium would be correct to give if it is spasmodic colic, while if the patient has impaction of the bowels a dose of opium would only pack the bowels the harder. A dose of aconite should never be given when the heart is weak and slow, for the reason that aconite .depresses the heart and will, cause death. On the other hand, aconite would be the proper drug to give when the heart was beating full and strong and very rapid. A common mistake is to give horses sweet spirits of nitre when suffering from frequent urination, urina-tion, as this drug is a diuretic or increases in-creases the flow of urine. It only aggravates ag-gravates the trouble in this particular case. ' In diseases of the respiratory tract, when the high fever has caused constipation con-stipation one should never use aloes ;on account of the danger from super-purgation. super-purgation. Raw linseed oil is preferable, prefer-able, as it is much safer. |
