List of Drugs employed in the Treatment of Elephants—continued.

Drugs.

Hindustani.

Burmese.

USES.

DOSES.

Remarks.

Internal.

External.

Steel.

Slymm.

Gilchrist.

—

Piper cubeba

Cabaub chinee
—Steel. Si-
tal chini—
Khory

...

Carminative, excitant—
Slymm. Specially valu-
able in cases of catarrh
in small doses—Steel

...

½ to 1
oz.

2 to 8
tolas

...

....

Fruits of cubeba
officinalis

Pix liquida

Kil alkatra ...

...

Useful for foot sores—Steel.
Excitant, rubefacient,
anti-deodorizer, anti-
parasitic—Tuton

...

...

....

...

Tar

Plantain

Monz; kela—
Steel

In musth, urinary disorders,
nutritive

...

6 to 12
lbs.

...

...

Ad lib.

Fruit of musa para-
disiaca

Plantain tree root

Monz ka jud

Diaphoretic— Slymm

...

...

3 to 8
seers

Plantain tree leaves

Monz ka pntta

...

Eye-shades, etc.

Poppy capsules ...

Posht

...

Anodyne as fomentations
or poultice to bruised
and inflamed parts, or
to tender and irritable
ulcers, or to eyes in
ophthalmia—Khory

...

...

...

...

Capsules of Papa-
ver somniferum

Potass, bicarbonate

...

Antacid, diuretic

...

...

...

...

4 to 6
drs.

Potass, chlorate ...

...

...

Mild stimulant, diuretic,
refrigerent, in flatulency
chiefly—Tuson

Stimulant and refrigerent
to unhealthy ulcers

...

...

...

2 to 4
drs.

Potass, bromide ...

...

Sedative; lowers generative
functions in a marked
degree

...

...

...

...

4 to 6
drs.

Potass, nitras

Shora—Steel

Diuretic, febrifuge, refri-
gerent—Steel, Slymm

Refrigerent- Steel. Stimu-
- lant to unhealthy wounds
— Tusun

½ to 1
oz.

1 to 3
tolas

...

½ to 1
oz.

Nitre, saltpetre

Potass, perman-
ganas.

...

...

...

Deodorizer, disinfectant,
excitant to unhealthy
wounds—Tuson

Potass, perman-
ganas liq.

...

...

...

Cleansing wash for diseased
surfaces—Tuson. Dis-
infectant, deodorizer

...

...

...

...

Condy's fluid con-
tains 4 grs. to 1
oz.