6o VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY. 



intolerance of light; the horse will poke his head into an}' corner 

 to get away from the window or open door, 



Cantliaris, 3X. — It is well known that local physiological mani- 

 festations from the use of this drug are pimples, vesicles and 

 pustules; but erysipelas like many other pathological develop- 

 ments is often accompanied by symptoms in the organs or parts of 

 the bod}' which do not seem to be associated, at the same time 

 when they appear together and form a totality of present symp- 

 toms the one remedy cures the lot; so it is in the case of Cantliaris 

 in erysipelas when the urinary organs are affected at the same 

 time, there being a constant desire to pass water, but ability only 

 to do so a few drops at once; itching, however, is not a predomi- 

 nant symptom; the affected parts rather feel hot and burning; 

 the pimples are large and flat containing a good deal of their fluid 

 serum, and the vesicles burst readily. 



Rhzis toxicodendron, 2x. — One of the chief remedies in vesi- 

 cular erysipelas, especially if the near hind leg is attacked and- 

 thereafter it extends to the off leg; the surface of the skin is very 

 red, burns to the touch, swells considerably, and the vesicles are 

 small and ntimerous; itching- is intolerable, as the horse will give 

 evidence of by rubbing the legs together or against the sides of 

 the box. 



These are the principal agents that are likely to prove eft'ectual 

 in chet-king the spread and further development of this disease; 

 the internal administration of the drugs, which must be selected 

 according to the totality of the symptoms, will be rendered more 

 rapidly effective if also a local application consisting of one part of 

 the mother tincture of the selected remedy is mixed with two 

 parts of glycerine and three of water and applied to the skin with 

 a soft brush twice or three times a day. As the febrile symptoms 

 are usually very pronounced, and the waste of muscular tissue is 

 in consequence considerable, the most nourishing and easily 

 digestible food must be given, and in conjunction therewith dur- 

 ing convalescence nothing better than China (-) ten drops night 

 and morning can be combined to give tone to the system and pro- 

 mote assimilation of nourishing diet. 



