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gestion that the disease is realh' septic pleuro-pneumonia. By 

 Mr. lycach's invitation we gave him our idea of the line of treat- 

 ment such a case would call for, and it was as follows: In the first 

 place Aconite 3X a dose every two or three hours would have been 

 the first remedy when called in, to be followed, after three doses, 

 by Bryonia 3X; if, as was the case with Mr. Leach, the mucous 

 discharge from the nostrils ultimately became colored with blood, 

 our remedy would certainly have been Phosphoriis -^\-^^, and had 

 the symptoms of septic poisoning supervened Lachesis 5 would 

 have been resorted to. The reason which, in our judgment, 

 accounts for cases of this sort becoming ill at all, is not that it is 

 of an infectious character, but that it owes its development to an 

 over-heated atmosphere of the stable which is supercharged with 

 effete material emanating from the breath of the horses; and 

 when these cases develop typhoid or septic characteristics it is due 

 to a lack of good sanitation and hj'giene: the stables are over- 

 crowded according to the cubic area, and the ventilation at the 

 best is always imperfect and very generally, actuall}' faulty. 

 With all due deference to Mr. Leach's opinion we are unable to 

 agree with him that animals the subject of this disease rapidly get 

 well; doubtless from Mr. Leach's experience, it is so at New- 

 market, but not in London and Liverpool, which are the places 

 where our cases were located. Further, our opinion is that in 

 patients whose lungs the disease has invaded pretty thoroughly, 

 the chance of rendering them useful, at all events for fast work, is 

 remote under Allopathy; but wnth such homoeopathic remedies as 

 Bryonia, Phosphorus and Arsenicum album the prospects are 

 bright and promising, and it behoves owners of flat racers, 

 steeple chasers and trotters, if they would save their animals from 

 developing into " Jlfusiciafis''' after being the subjects of inflam- 

 mation of the lungs or bronchitis to see to it that they are pulled 

 through the illness with this sort of treatment. 



