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Doses. How Mucli? 



It is an error to suppose that animals require very 

 large doses of SPECIFIC HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES, 

 for experience has shown sick animals to be very 

 impressible, and easily influenced by appropriate 

 medicine, and in general, not to require as frequent 

 repetitions as the human subject. Those who are 

 accustomed to give large and powerful doses of poison- 

 ous medicines in order to produce some revulsive 

 action, such as a cathartic or sudorific, or even as an 

 alternative, can not from hence infer the proper quan- 

 tity required when only a curative result is desired- 

 Only experience hence can answer the question, 

 How much ? And experience has amply shown that 

 for horses ten to fifteen drops is the range of closes 

 best adapted in ordinary cases, and that while cattle 

 and hogs require rather more, sheep and dogs re- 

 quire less than the doses mentioned. We have 

 indicated in each disease the dose supposed to be 

 best for that particular case, yet to give two or five 

 drops more in any given case would probably not ba 

 hurtful, while to give a few drops less would not en- 

 danger the curative action for want of the requisite 

 quantity. The truth is that precision in .quantity is 

 not indispensable to a cure. The doses indicated we 

 think are best, but a deviation from them is 'by no 

 means fatal. One physcian gives much more and 

 another many times less, and both are successful. 

 Medicine gives a curative impulse often as well or 

 better with five or ten drops as with more. Be- 



