Lime Water. This article is used in diarrhœa, and when the discharge of urine is excessive. Being an antacid, it is very usefully employed when cattle are hoven or blown. It is unsafe to administer alone, as it often deranges the digestive organs: it is therefore very properly combined with tonics. The following will serve as an example:—

Lime water,2 ounces.
Infusion of snakehead, (balmony,)2 quarts.

Dose, a quart, night and morning.

Lobelia, (herb,) (lobelia inflata.) This is an excellent antispasmodic. It is used in the form of poultice for locked-jaw, and as a relaxant in rigidity of the muscular structure.

Mandrake, (podophyllum peltatum.) Used as physic for cattle, (which see.)

Marshmallows. See Althea

Meadow Cabbage Root, (ictodes fœtida.) This plant is used as an antispasmodic in asthma and chronic cough. Dose, a tea-spoonful of the powder, night and morning; to be given in mucilage of slippery elm.

Motherwort, (leonurus cardiaca.) A tea of this herb is valuable in protracted labor.

Mullein, (verbascum.) The leaves steeped in vinegar make a good application for sore throat.

Myrrh. The only use we make of this article, in cattle practice, is to prepare a tincture for wounds, as follows:—