Externally alcohol is used alone as a strengthening application to weak tendons and muscles; or after a race, is used to rub on the legs, combined with other drugs as a liniment, as alcohol, soap-liniment and witch hazel; can be used in surgery as an antiseptic.
To toughen the skin of tender or thin skinned horses who gall or chafe easily under the collar and saddle, alcohol will be found a most satisfactory application.
ALOE BARBADENSIS—BARBADOES ALOES
The thickened juice of the leaves of Aloe vera, Linn., Aloe chinensis, Bak., and probably other species, evaporated to dryness.
Habitat.—The Barbadoes Island.
Properties.—In hard masses, orange, brown, opaque, translucent on the edges; fracture waxy or resinous; odor saffron-like; taste strongly bitter. Almost entirely soluble in alcohol; most used in veterinary medicine.
Constituent.—Aloin; a resin; volatile oil; gallic acid.
Dose.—Horses, 1⁄2 to 1 oz.; cattle, 1 to 2 oz.; sheep, 1⁄2 to 1 oz.; pigs, 2 to 4 dr.; 20 gr. to 1 dr.
ALOE SOCOTRINA—SOCOTRINE ALOES
The juice that flows from the transversely cut leaves of Aloe Perryi, Baker, evaporated to dryness.