PART IV. 

 A BRIEF MATERIA MEDICA 



OF THE 



CHIEF REMEDIES PRESCRIBED IN THIS 

 BOOK. 



THIS Materia Medica, condensed from the standard homoeo- 

 pathic text-books, gives some of the more prominent indications 

 calling for the remedy named in human beings; the same 

 indication demands the same remedy, whether it occurs in man, 

 beast or fowl ; thus readers will not only be enabled to obtain a 

 clearer knowledge of the remedy their fowls require, but at 

 times to select a remedy for their own ills. It must not be 

 inferred that all the symptoms, under a remedy, must be present 

 in order to call for it. A few of them, or even one, will be 

 relieved by the remedy if truly indicated. 



Aconitum. Restlessness. Anxiety. Headache as if the 

 brain were moved or raised. Eyes staring, red, inflamed. For 

 inflammation resulting from foreign substances in the eyes. 

 Violent sneezing, feverish, thirsty with coryza. For beginnings 

 "o/ colds." Toothache in sound teeth, or neuralgia, from 



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