18 LIST OF SPECIFICS AND REMEDIES. 



REPETITIONS HOW OFTEN. 



The effect of Specific Homoeopathic Remedies 

 are very prompt and positive. Often immediate, 

 in cases of colic or other forms of neuralgia, as the 

 medicine acts at once through the medium of the 

 nervous system. In other acute diseases, such as 

 in inflammation, the effect is equally prompt, but 

 not so openly manifested. 



After a dose of medicine has been given and 

 good results are being manifested the animal 

 easier, more quiet and relieved, it is wise not to 

 interfere with even a new dose until the good 

 action is exhausted. Hence the time to repeat, is 

 trkcn that good effect has terminated. All rules of 

 repetition are based upon this axiom. Thus in 

 colic and inflammation of the bowels, we repeat 

 every fifteen, thirty or sixty minutes. In inflam- 

 mations of the lungs, or chest, head or other noble 

 organ, or in glanders or similar acute diseases, we 

 repeat once in two, three or four hours. In the 

 yet less severe forms of disease, such as fevers, 

 founder, strangles, distemper, lameness, or similar 

 diseases, a dose once in four hours, or four times 

 per day, is quite sufficient. While in coughs, 

 heaves, ulcers, eruptions, and similar affections, if 

 recent, a dose morning and night is ample. In 

 old chronic affections, a dose every day, or every 

 second day, is better than more frequent repeti- 

 tions, and in not a few cases, a single dose of 

 medicine never repeated has cured an old, long- 

 standing and obstinate disease. 



