. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. ous, organisms to which carbolic acid is in- stant death. By injecting solutions of 5 to 10 per cent, of the acid to the water they are destroyed by the million, and by keeping the parts well bathed with the lotion, or covered with cloths wrung out of it, their recurrence is prevented. Taken iu medicinal doses, say one to two grains or drops to the ounce of sweetened water, and being absorbed into the system, it seems to exert a specific effect upon the kid- nay
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. ous, organisms to which carbolic acid is in- stant death. By injecting solutions of 5 to 10 per cent, of the acid to the water they are destroyed by the million, and by keeping the parts well bathed with the lotion, or covered with cloths wrung out of it, their recurrence is prevented. Taken iu medicinal doses, say one to two grains or drops to the ounce of sweetened water, and being absorbed into the system, it seems to exert a specific effect upon the kid- nays and bronchial tubes, thus constituting a most valuable diuretic and expectorant. Hence the flooding of the market with car- bolic troches. But its most important use has been thought to be iu the destruction of those veg- etable spores and morbific animalcules which have of late been proven to be the prolific source of many epidemic and contagious dis- esases among MEN AND DOMESTIC ANIMAiS. It has been shown that it acts with distructive agency upon these germs out of the body,and it has been reasonably concluded that it would act with equal effect upon them iu the body. With this view it has been ad- ministered internally, but not sufficiently long and extensively to demonstrate its absolute merits. A few drops of a weak solution are sufficient to prevent the mould on ink and other vege- table solutions. In the concentrated form, it is said to have been used to destroy the pois- onous effects of dissection wounds. It has been recommended in vomiting,diarrhcea,dys- pepsia and flatulence. Whenever putrefac- tion or even common fermentation is suspect- ed in the stomach, carbolic acid by its anti- fermentive and anti-septic properties would be of undoubted efficacy. From the properties of carbolic acid already known and acknowledged it was confidently expected that it would act equally well as a worm medicine; and in the few that have been as yet made with it, it has no
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