. Diseases in the American stable, field and farmyard : containing a familiar description of diseases, their nature, cause and symptoms, the most approved method of treatment, and the properties and use of remedies, with directions for preparing them. Veterinary medicine; Horses. 52 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. disinfectant as can be used by the farmer. It is cheap and efficient, and not dangerous like chloride of zinc. Sulphurous acid, or rather its fumes, has, in all ages, been used as a disinfectant, and by general consent it is considered to be most valuable. Its action on animal and vegetable s
. Diseases in the American stable, field and farmyard : containing a familiar description of diseases, their nature, cause and symptoms, the most approved method of treatment, and the properties and use of remedies, with directions for preparing them. Veterinary medicine; Horses. 52 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. disinfectant as can be used by the farmer. It is cheap and efficient, and not dangerous like chloride of zinc. Sulphurous acid, or rather its fumes, has, in all ages, been used as a disinfectant, and by general consent it is considered to be most valuable. Its action on animal and vegetable substances is readily seen by the change in color produced. In the form of sulphate of soda, it will arrest the vinous fermentation in cider and other mate- rials ; or if injected into the veins of dead animals, it em- balms them most perfectly. For stables and houses filled with animals nothing will answer so well as chloride of lime, or McDougal's disin- fecting powders, applied to the floors and excrement once per day with a large dredging box. For empty houses chlorine gas will be found as convenient and good as any. For this purpose, procure a strong wide- mouthed bottle, fill it about half full of bin oxide of manganese, close all the doors and windows, and other open places, then fill up the bottle with the spirits of salt, uTeTrngenerating and retire and close the door. This may chlorine gas. j^g repeated a few times in the course of a week. The fumes that are disengaged will penetrate to every crevice and corner in the building. This operation any farmer can perform himself, as there is no risk whatever. The spirits of salt will have to be kept in a glass-stoppered bottle till it is wanted, as it will not only eat a common cork, but it will, by exposure to the air, abstract moisture from it, by which it greatly loses its virtue and strength. As before stated, this plan of dis- infecting is only to be used when the house is empty. (See Sulphurous Acid Gas in Part II.). P
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