Cases illustrating the success of homœopathy in the cattle plague : with an account of the Norfolk trial / by James Moore.

  • Moore, James D., III
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cases illustrating the success of homœopathy in the cattle plague : with an account of the Norfolk trial / by James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases, 8 recoveries and 9 deaths being the result. He adopted the excellent plan of having his own man to attend upon the cases night and day. 3. Miss Taunton, Stockbridge, sent for me on Nov. 21st. The case was a valuable pedigree cow, that had been ill for several days, and treated by the owner, as for pleuro-pneumonia, with aeon, and bryon. It had all the symptoms of plague. I prescribed bell, and phos. at first, and subsequently I prescribed by letter according to the symptoms furnished to me. This case died in a week after my first and only visit. 4. H. It. Farnell, Esq., C.B., Government Poor-Law Inspector, requested me to attend a cow, on Dec. 28th. It was a case of plague complicated with pleuro-pneumonia of the right side. It had been well treated by Mr. Urell, homoeopathic chemist. I saw the animal when the disease was at its height, and it afterwards steadily improved and recovered. 5. Mr. P., Holloway, put a cow under my treatment on Nov. 28th. Another case had died the day before, but I do not know whether it had been treated or not. The case which I treated was doing well when I last saw it; in fact, it was convalescent. Mr. James Moore, jun., subsequently called, and found the improvement main¬ tained, and apparently nothing the matter. I was much surprised to hear by note that the cow had died suddenly several days after my last visit. I cannot account for this unexpected event, except by supposing that sufficient care had not been observed in diet. 6. Mr. C., Wimbledon, called me in on Dec. 31st. Three cases were ill. One had been bad seveial days , the other two were considered to be well, but I found on examination the usual symptoms of the disease. In all three cases, and particularly in one, there were well-developed pocks, round the roots of the teats, exactly the same as those of ordinary cow-pox. In addition, there was a large crop of small vesicles on the udder, which detached
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