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both went on in much the same way, we consider that they serve 

 to confirm Dr. Hughes' views concerning the special indications 

 for this drug in a remarkable and very satisfactory manner. 



Bryonia 3X. — When deposition of formed material has taken 

 place in the true lung tissue, and that form of the disease known 

 as plcuro-pneiimonia is developed, which, as before stated, can 

 readily be recognized by the pain the animal evinces as the result 

 of pressure between the ribs, this is a splendid remedy; further 

 evidence of this state of things may also be gleaned from the 

 nature of the animal's cough, which is short, painful and catchy, 

 an effort is evidently being made to suppress the cough, if possible; 

 if this is of the dry character, as though there were no mucus to 

 cough up, and the membranes were harsh, it serves as an addi- 

 tional indication for Bryonia, under the influence of which the 

 tickling that serves to excite the continuous cough is relieved; 

 the liver also comes under the same category, provided the yellow 

 color of eyes and mouth is neither too deep nor pronounced; when 

 the discharge through the nose is profuse and rusty colored in 

 conjunction with the symptoms previously mentioned as peculiar 

 to Bryonia, it will be well to alternate this remed}' with Phosphorus; 

 but alternation of remedies is, in our judgment, only permissible in 

 such diseases as this, where two or three pathological processes 

 are going on at • the same time; to be strictly in accord with 

 Hahnemann it should be noted that alternation of remedies is only 

 very occasionally allowable. 



Antiimnium tartaricuni 6x. — Although this agent has been 

 relied upon among medical practitioners for the human subject in 

 the old system, it is not often prescribed by veterinarians and as 

 is ably pointed out by Dr. Hughes, it is not in the earlier stages 

 of pneumonia that it is likely to prove efficacious; this fact we 

 are able to confirm from experience among horses and cows; but 

 there is a period in the course of the disease in which it exercises 

 a very marked effect for good; we have 'already endeavored to 

 make it clear that as this inflammation progresses, the smallest air 

 tubes and cells beome blocked up with a fluid effusion that ulti- 

 mately becomes formed into a more solid form and also that a fluid 

 exudation takes place into the mesh-like fibres that go to makeup 

 the true lung tissue, surrounding the air tubes, which in turn 

 assume a solid tissue, or, as it is described in pathology ''formed 



