10^ RINDERPEST. 



and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague, &c., &c., of 

 which His Grace, the Duke of JMariborough is announced as 

 Chairman : 



" Arsenic has been useful chiefly in meeting the prostration about 

 the fifth or sixth day. As a prophylactic I question its value. If it 

 have any, it is not in the sense that vaccination is prophylactic to small 

 pox; but it simply acts by keeping the animals in good condition, 

 and so enables them the better to resist the contagion, giving rise to 

 the disease. 



" Hhus tax. — The chief indication for this remedy has been found 

 in the muscular twitchings which characterize the disease in some of 

 its stages. 



" Mercurius' sol. has been found valuable when the mouth has been 

 long congested, and the patches of desquamation are general. 



^^ Ammonium caust., 1st dec, is of service where there is much 

 abdominal distention, with heavy breathing and painful moaning. 



" Turpentine^ 1st dec, has been of signal service in checking haema- 

 turia, a symptom which did not yield to Cantharis at all. . 



" Secale cor., tine, Mr. Emerton thought useful in one case of sub- 

 cutaneous emphysema, and its proving shows that it deserves atten- 

 tion in this condition. 



^''Phosphoric acid, 1st dec, Merc^irius sol. and Arsenic have 

 appeared to control the diarrhoea more than any other remedies ; but 

 they have not proved altogether satisfactory. In any future case I 

 should be disposed to try Muriatic acid or China. It has been a more 

 difficult symptom to meet than any other. 



" Mercurius cor. 1, has checked several cases of dysentery in very 

 marked manner. 



" In one case of apparently impending metastasis, the acetate of 

 copper, in grain doses of the first trituration, appeared to prevent its 

 development ; but it was the only case in which it was resorted to, 

 and therefore much additional experience is required before its value 

 here can be estimated correctly. 



"In addition to medicines, much good has accrued from exposing 

 the animal's muzzle to steam from boiling water or scalded bran. 

 The nasal discharge is thus promoted, and large lumps of coagulated 

 mucus are passed, to the great relief of the patient." .... 



In brief review of this method of treatment, it is to be 

 observed in all frankness, that inasmuch as the present 

 foundation of the Homoeopathic system lies in its Symptoma- 

 tology, no little difficulty must be experienced in applying it 



