30 REPETITIONS, 



sides, in giving medicines to animals, from their 

 restlessness, dodging the head, and other similar 

 disturbing circumstances we can not, and happily 

 need not, be very positive Give the doses as near 

 the directions, as you may be able, and the result will 

 be satisfactory. Young animals require but half as 

 much as grown ones. 



Repetitions. How Often? 



The effects of Specific Homoepathic Remedies 

 are very prompt and positive. Often immediate, in 

 cases of colic other forms-of neuraligia, as the medi- 

 cine acts at once through the medium of the nervous 

 system. In other acute cases such as inflammations, 

 the effect is equally as prompt, but not so openly 

 manifested. The medicine placed in contact with 

 the nervous papilla of the tongue is at once by 

 means of this connection conveyed over the entire 

 system, while the stomach being a screting rather 

 than an absorbing surface rather repells than 

 absorbs a medicinal influence so that medicines usual- 

 ly act better from being placed on the tongue, than 

 when they are introduced into the stomach. 



After a dose of medicine has been given and good 

 results are being manifested the animal easier, more 

 quite and apparently relieved, it is wise not to in- 

 terfere with even a new dose until that good action is 

 exhausted. Hence the time to repeat ', is when that 

 good effect has terminated. All rules of repetition are 

 based upon this axiom. Thus, in colic and inflamma 



