As an antiseptic and deodorizer for disinfecting newly cut or old foul smelling wounds and for surgical purposes one drachm to half an ounce of the drug to one pint of water. As an eye wash use about one in two thousand to one in one thousand. For uterine injections use one in five thousand to one in two thousand. As an antidote for opium, morphine or weed-poisoning it can be administered by the mouth or hypodermically. When given for these purposes the amount of potassium permanganate should equal that of the poison taken. QUSSIA--BITTER WOOD Qussia is obtained from chips or shavings from a tall tree 70 to 100 feet high. HABITAT.--Jamaica and other West Indian Islands. PROPERTIES.--Qussia has no odor, but an intensely bitter taste, dependent on a neutral crystalline principle, quassin. There is also a volatile oil, but no tannin. PREPARATIONS EXTRACTUM QUASSIAE--EXTRACT OF QUSSIA Made by percolation with water, boiling and evaporation to pilular consistence. DOSE.--Horses and cattle, 1 to 2 dr.; sheep and pigs, 15 to 30 gr.; dogs, ¹⁄₂ to 3 gr. FLUIDEXTRACTUM QUASSIAE--FLUIDEXTRACT OF QUSSIA Made by maceration and percolation with alcohol and water and evaporation. DOSE.--Horses and cattle, 1 to 2 oz.; sheep and pigs, 2 to 4 dr.; dogs, 15 m. to 1 dr. TINCTURE QUSSIAE--TINCTURE OF QUSSIA Made by maceration and percolation of qussia, 200 parts; with alcohol and water to make 1000. DOSE.--Horses and cattle, 2 to 4 oz.; sheep and pigs, ¹⁄₂ to 1 oz.; dogs, ¹⁄₂ to 2 dr. ACTION AND USES.--Qussia is a bitter stomachic and tonic. It resembles gentian and calumba. It is prescribed for the several domestic animals in dyspepsia, loss of appetite and convalescence from debilitating disorders. Qussia is the most efficient vermicide in our possession for the destruction of Oxyuris curvula, horse; and O. vermicularis, dog, in the lower bowel. An infusion is employed for this purpose, made by soaking qussia chips in cold water (two drachms of the qussia to one pint of water) for half an hour. The rectum should be first thoroughly washed out with soap and water and one-half pint of this infusion is given in enema to dogs; two quarts to horses. The infusion is a narcotic poison for flies and other insects. JALAPA--JALAP The dried tuberous roots of Exogonium Purga Bentham, yielding not less than eight per cent of total resin, but not more than one and a half per cent of the resin soluble in ether. HABITAT.--Southern United States and Mexico. PROPERTIES.--The root is dark brown, with numerous concentric circles composed of small resin cells; fracture resinous, lustrous, not fibrous; odor slight, but peculiar, smoky and sweetish; taste sweetish and acrid. DOSE.--Pigs, 2 to 4 dr.; dogs, 1 to 2 dr.; cats, ¹⁄₂ to 1 dr. RESINA JALAPA--RESIN OF JALAP Made by maceration and percolation with alcohol, partial distillation; precipitation with water; washing and drying.