ARRANGEMENT OF DISEASES. 



To facilitate a ready reference to the malady of which a horse 

 is temporarily, the subject, is now our object and, the difficulty of 

 realizing this in a simple way, so that he who runs may read, is 

 not easily overcome; the list of ''suggestive symptoms,'" it will, 

 it is hoped, materially aid the horseman to discover under what 

 classification of diseases the malady is to be found; a large pro- 

 portion of these ''suggestive symptoms'' will be found to refer to 

 various maladies and at first sight this may strike the student as 

 . somewhat perplexing; but this condition of affairs is siniplv un- 

 avoidable, because the same symptoms do regularly appear in 

 different maladies. This is one of the obstacles which the allo- 

 path, who in his superior way has never condescended to make a 

 study of the principles of Homoeopathy, can never surmount; the 

 obstacle however, is by no means so insurmountable as he ( the alo- 

 path) would feign believe, the whole crux of the matter is summed 

 up in the word totality. Having made a list of all the symp- 

 toms observable it will be found that while three or four of these 

 are each present in some half dozen or more maladies, there 

 is still one more symptom which is only found in one of these 

 said half dozen maladies and this will be the disease you will 

 have to .study. For instance, you will find staring coat, quickened 

 breathing, rapid pulse, heightened temperature, constipated bowels 

 urine very high colored and diminished in quantity in no end of 

 maladies and were these or but one of these symptoms taken alone 

 the prescriber '^^ould find it difficult to suggest a remedy, but take 

 them as they stand and you have a picture of connnon simple 

 fever, at the same time they one and all may be observed in a 

 very large number of maladies that present not only these but 

 one or more symptoms which you must discern before you can 

 prescribe, hence it becomes absolutely necessary to carefully trace 

 the various symptoms presented by the patient from one disea.scd 

 condition to another until you find the groui) under one malady 



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