Medicinal doses

In the United States, 100 times more bacitracin by weight is used as a feed additive than for human medicine. Most of this is BMD but some is the zinc salt. BMD can be used in subtherapeutic nutritional dosages for increase in feed efficiency and for growth promotion in poultry, swine, and feedlot cattie at concentrations of 2.6—33 g/t of feed (78,81,82). Prophylactic or therapeutic medicinal dosing at higher concentrations is used for necrotic enteritis in chickens, transmissable enteritis in turkeys, ulcerative enteritis in quail, dysentery in swine, and Hver abcess in cattie (see Feeds and feed additives). 

Narcotic analgesics Morphine and many of its homologues, when administered in medicinal doses, relieve pain and produce sleep. In poisonous doses, these produce stupor, coma, convulsions and ultimately death. Morphine narcotics are sometimes referred to as opiates, since they are obtained from the opium poppy. 

Phonological Effects.—In the solid stata its local action is remarkably energetic, rapidly destroying the tissue with which it comes in coutact. When dissolved it is also powerfully corrosive, and consequently an energetic poison in lai ge doses. It excites no constitutional action, except what depends on the local injury it occasions. In medicinal doses it possesses antacid and antilithic properties, and is administared in some hitter infusion. 

In constipation, action similar to Senna, and sometimes preferred to the latter rarely gripes. Occasionally prescribed with diuretics, etc., for gravel and dropsy. Combined with tonics and stomachics such as Gentian and Calumba root, makes a first-rate family medicine. Dose, wineglass of the ounce to pint infusion. 

The authors (216) stated that usual medicinal doses of dlethylamlnoetl l benzllate not Infrequently produce mental changes—retardation or stoppage of the current of thought, a feeling of emptiness, forgetfulness, shortened attention span, sensations of heaviness and altered shape of the limbs, apatiqr, sluggishness. Impression of Isolation from the environment, hostility, apprehension, horror, anxiety, and hypochondriasis. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, an irritant poison in medicinal doses, alterative and tonic in chronic rheumatism, paralysis, epilepsy, chorea, farcy, and mange. Externally —Used in the cure of mange, scab, and other skin diseases also as a caustic to eradicate warts, and to produce the sloughing and effect the removal of malignant tumours. Wlien used externally, and especially for the latter purposes, arsenious acid must be employed with great caution, as it is liable to be absorbed and to kill the patient. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses it is occasionally employed as an anthelmintic also given to dogs to allay vomition. Externally —Caustic, disinfectant, astringent, and styptic applied to cancerous sores and ulcers which emit a fetid odour, e. g, canker and thrush in the foot of the horse, and foot-rot in sheep. It modifies suppuration and fadlitates cicatrization when applied to wounds. Said... 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, tonic. Said to act as a lithonlytic on earthy phosphates and carbonates probably it possesses this property o y when injected into the bladder. If employed for this purpose, it must be highly diluted. See Acidum Hydrochlorictm dilutvm, Externally —Caustic, astringent, antiseptic. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally — In excessive doses, narcotic poison in medicinal doses, sedative, antispasmodic, and anodyne. Used in chronic cough, chorea, epilepsy, chronic vomiting, carditis, palpitation of the heart, rheumatism, and tetanus. 

Actions and JSm Intemally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, astringent and tonic. Extern mUly —Deodoriser and disinfectant also used as a caustic for removing warts and fungous growths, and in canker for improving the condition and destroying the fostor of unhealthy wounds, caries, foul, and foot-rot. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally i—In excessive doses, cere-bro-spinal poison in medicinal doses, sedative and anodyne. Externally —Occasionally applied to allay neuralgic and rheumatic pains for this purpose, however, Linimentum Aconiti or Tinctura Aconiti is usually preferred. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, purgative, nauseant, tonic, diuretic, vermifuge. Externally —Traumatic. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, astringent in diarrhoea, dysentery, and obstinate diabetes as an antidote to poisoning by lead, and to arrest the secretion of milk in cows. Eccternally —Astringent to open joints and wounded thec as a collyrium in chronic conjunctivitis also styptic. 

Actions and Uses. — Internally —In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, stimulant, resolvent, diuretic. GKven in mucous fevers after subsidence of acute infiammatory symptoms in the milder forms of pneumonia and infiammations of serous membranes in mucous diarrhoea, chronic rheumatism, and passive dropsies. Externally —... 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, irritant and corrosive poison in medicinal doses, tonic and antispasmodic. It is sometimes given to the dog in chorea, epilepsy, and other nervous affections also been found of service to the dog in diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera. Externally —Stimulant, astringent, and caustic. Used as a coUyrium in conjunctivitis and similar superficial in-fiammatory complaints for the improvement of indolent sores, mange, ringworm, and other chronic skin diseases as a caustic for the eradication of warts, fungous and other growths. Applied also to poisoned wounds, and to the bites of rabid and venomous animals. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally —In excessive doses, a narcotic-acrid poison in medicinal doses, sedative, anodyne, and antispasmodic. In whatever doses it is administered, or by whatever channel it enters the circulation, it causes dilatation of the pupil. Given in colic, acute and chronic rheumatism, bronchitis, infiuenza, and in cases of sore throat and cough which often accompany or succeed this last-named disease. 

Actions and Uses.—Infernally —In large doses, irritant and narcotic poison in medicinal doses, stimulant, sedative, antispasmodic also, after long exhibition, diuretic. Occa-... 

Actions and Uses. — In excessive doses, whether the liquid be swallowed or the vapour inhaled, narcotic poison in medicinal doses, stimulant and antispasmodic breathed in admixture with air, ansesthetic. 

Actions and Uses.—In excessive doses, irritant poison in medicinal doses, cathartic, emetic, and sedative it also increases the secreting action of the skin, kidneys, and particularly that of the intestinal mucous membrane. Occasionally prescribed on account of its sedative and diuretic qualities, in small and frequently repeated doses, in rheumatism and rheumatic influenza, also in deep-seated or constitutional ophthalmia. 

Actions and Uses.—Internally — In large doses, irritant and sedative poison in medicinal doses, sedative and diuretic. Liable to accumulate in the system and irritate the intestines its action should, therefore, be carefully watched. Chiefly given as a sedative in the secondary stages of inflammatory affections, functional diseases of the heart, and chronic rheumatism also recommended in pneumonia and chronic cough. Prescribed as a diuretic, either alone or in combination with nitrate of potash, in dropsical complaints.. —-Irritant, diuretic, sedative, anodyne. 

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