Manual of veterinary homœopathy, : comprehending the treatment of the diseases of domestic animals. / From the German of M. W***.

  • W., M.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Manual of veterinary homœopathy, : comprehending the treatment of the diseases of domestic animals. / From the German of M. W***. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    11] cessively swollen. I gave to each of these animals J melampodiurn, three times a day, without stopping their work or their alimentary regimen. At the end of fourteen days the proprietor brought them to show me how perfectly they were cured. Sulphur, mercurius solubilis, siiicea, es- pecially when the malady has made much progress. Arsenicum. Genzke cites the following case, in which this medicine has succeeded; “I was called,” he says, “ to treat a horse attacked with grease, after a journey he had made during wet weather, through muddy and argillaceous roads. On examination, I found the tumefaction tense, and erysipelatous at the articulation of the fet- lock, accompanied with swelling of the tendons of the tibia ; small excrescences, of the nature of pustules, which exuded a yellowish sanies that matted the hair and formed, on drying in the air, light crusts, which were detached on touching them. The animal manifested great sensibility when the hand was placed on the affected part; he limped, and avoided using the articulation of the fetlock; the flush also was swollen. Ar- senicum appeared to me the medicine most ap- propriate to these different symptoms ; 1 gave it,
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