sold by the gas-companies. Medicinally it is a strong antacid; stimulant; antispasmodic; and diaphoretic. Enters into liq. ammon. acet. (Mindereru's spirit.) Anodynes.-The best and only anodyne used in cattle medicine is opium. See opium. Antimony.-There are three preparations of antimony used in the treatment of the diseases of horned cattle. First, sup Antimonial Powder.-The powder of the oxide of antimony, with phosphate of lime. Pulvis. antimonalis co. This is posed to be nearly the same as James's powder. It is an useful febrifuge. Secondly, Emetic Tartar.-The dose is from a scruple to half a dram, or a dram; will be found of great use in lowering the circulation in inflammatory complaints. Adulterated with arsenic or its salts. Dissolve a small quantity in distilled water, add sulphuret of ammonia, and it will give a gold coloured precipitate. Mixed with lard it forms a good and powerful stimulating ointment, which should be made in the following manner; that sold in the shops being too weak. Receipt No. 4.-Ointment of Emetic Tartar. Take Emetic tartar ..... .Four drams. Chloride of Antimony (butyr of antimony) is a good liquid caustic, and useful for warts; foul of the foot; and in indolent wounds. Antispasmodics are substances that allay irregular muscular contraction. Whatever be the nature of the ultimate fibrils of muscles, it may be affirmed that muscular contraction is solely attributable to the nervous system. The effects of antispasmodics are generally perceptible very soon after their administration, but this must necessarily depend upon the cause of the spasm. If, for example, you bleed a cow to syncope; take away more of the vital fluid than the system can support; we again and again see this fainting attended with convulsions. On the other hand, in an attack of inflammation of the brain, we have convulsions, and antispasmodics in the latter case could not, of course, be exhibited. Medicines having an antispasmodic effect will be mentioned as we come to them in our alphabetical list. Astringents.-The best are alum; catechu and opium; blue vitriol; and nitrate of silver. This last is a powerful caustic; but I have frequently given it, not only to cattle, but also to our own species with the best effect. The following will be found useful forms :— Receipt No. 5. Take Tincture of opium. .From two drams to four drams. Take Nitrate of silver (lunar caustic). .Half a scruple. Treacle Flour sufficient to form one ball. .One dram. No. 8 is a very powerful remedy, and must not be used until the others have failed: it may be given two or three times a day, and in most cases with very great success. The author has given a variety of forms in order that choice may be given, as the owner will, nine times out of ten, have some of the above medicines in his house. The tincture of opium and starch will be found very useful, particularly if the animal is supported with thick gruel, or port wine and gruel. When very weak and exhausted, the following draught three times a day should be given : The last (No. 10) is perhaps the best-it is more simple than No. 9, and warm ale is very useful to the poor sinking Receipt No. 12.-Lotions.-Strong Goulard Water. horned cattle than The part should be Blisters require to be made stronger for horses, because their skin is much thicker. well washed with warm water, the hair shaved off, and the blister well rubbed in. In desperate cases, boiling water must be used. The following preparations are the best; we shall divide them into mild and strong liquid blisters, and mild and strong blistering ointments. Let them stand for three days, then strain and add the liquid to the oil of turpentine and olive oil. Vinegar sufficient to form an ointment. Receipt No. 18.-For Old Swellings the following Ointments may be used. Strong mercurial ointment......One ounce. In making the blistering ointments and liquid blisters, great care is required; if a little of the euphorbium gets into the nose, it will be found anything but an agreeable pinch of snuff. The best plan will be to get them prepared at some respectable chemist's, which will save both time and trouble, and nothing will be gained by making them at home. My time will not allow me to add more in the present number of the British Farmer's Magazine. We shall continue this subject in the next number, and shall then proceed to offer some remarks on calomel and corrosive sublimate, the hydrargyri chloridum, and hydrargyri bichloridum of the New-(the hydrargyri submurias and hydrargyri oxymurias of the Old)— Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. ON PROPERTY IN THE NATIONAL FUNDS. In an article of mine on the corn law, vol. vii, p. 398, I expressed an intention of sending a few observations on property in the national funds, or stocks, as they are called, concerning which, some incorrect notions are entertained by not a few. : It is not with respect to the income it views concerning them, as tending to diminish the wealth of the nation. These I have already considered in my paper on the national debt, vol. v, p. 300, in which I have shown, that this species of capital or property, like that invested in roads, bridges, canals, railways, or in agriculture, manufactures and commerce, is productive of additional wealth to the amount of the income derived from it that it, like all these, creates employment in the investing of it; that the interest of it, like theirs, is countercharged for in general prices; and that, like theirs, it reproduces additional employment among the various classes to the amount of its income, (which at that time was £76,000 a day) and is regularly, like the profit of other capital, distributed in the usual proportions, among those classes for employment, or articles, which are the result of employment. On this topic, I have no occasion to make any further observation. It is chiefly Held by Persons of Moderate or Small Incomes. My object is to notice some other crude and incorrect views of this species of national capital or property. I believe, it is a |