. Dr. Le Gear's stock book ... comprising a description of the general care, feeding and watering, stabling and breeding, and all the diseases and their treatment, of stock in Texas and the South .. . Fig. 2. Hypodermic Syringe. (2) Undee the Skin.—Medicines are frequently given under the skin by the use of a hypodermic syringe (Fig. Xo. 2). This is called the hypodermic (hypo., under; dermic, the skin) method of giving medicine. Such medicines as morphine, atropene, co- caine, , pilocarpine, etc., are given in this way. Great care should he taken in giving these medicines in this way,
. Dr. Le Gear's stock book ... comprising a description of the general care, feeding and watering, stabling and breeding, and all the diseases and their treatment, of stock in Texas and the South .. . Fig. 2. Hypodermic Syringe. (2) Undee the Skin.—Medicines are frequently given under the skin by the use of a hypodermic syringe (Fig. Xo. 2). This is called the hypodermic (hypo., under; dermic, the skin) method of giving medicine. Such medicines as morphine, atropene, co- caine, , pilocarpine, etc., are given in this way. Great care should he taken in giving these medicines in this way, he- cause they are all poisons, and must be used with care. The needle should be perfectly clean, so as not to poison the animal. In the neck, or on the shoulder, is the preferable place to give medicine hypodermicallv. (A) By Inhalation.—In certain head, throat, and lung trou- bles, inhalation of steam, containing a small quantity o\' such medicines as camphor, carbolic acid, turpentine, is very Ix neficial. Chloroform and sulphuric ether are 'nhaled through the tios< for anaesthetic purposes. To put a horse to sleep, use
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