Yet care must be taken in applying some medicines as tobacco water

Yet care must be taken in applying some medicines as tobacco water

Yet care must be taken in applying some medicines as tobacco water

By the skin. Medicines are often administered to our hair-covered animals by the skin, yet care must be taken in applying some medicines as tobacco water, carbolic-acid solutions, strong creolin solutions, mercurial ointment, etc. over the entire body, as poisoning and death follow in some instances from absorption through the skin. For the same reasons care must also be exercised and poisonous medicines not applied over very large raw or abraded surfaces. With domestic animals medicines are only to be applied by the skin to allay local pain or cure local disease.