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rank very high in cardiac disorders; and from some shght experi- 

 ence of its use, we can confirm the high estimate formed of the 

 drug by those who have submitted it to more crucial tests than we 

 have had the opportunity of doing; so far in our cases the febrile 

 symptoms were very pronounced, shivering and sweating alter- 

 nating with one another; the animals hang their heads down as 

 though heavy and aching; considerable palpitation and short, op- 

 pressive breathing were very marked; there was some diarrhoea, 

 and a good deal of thick-looking urine passed; Aconite had been 

 previously given in each case, but was not followed with the 

 usually-expected result, while to Cactus grnnd. all the symptoms 

 yielded readily and the normal action of the heart was restored. 

 In Dr. Hughes' Pharmacodynamics the drug is credited with the 

 exercise of beneficial influence upon diseases ranging from nervous 

 palpitation to inflammation of the organ, hypertrophy and valvu- 

 lar disease; and we have no doubt that Dr. Hughes only claims 

 for Cactus grand, what it is quite capable of realizing under specific 

 conditions; these facts, coming from such an authority, and in 

 some small degree confirmed in our own experience, only serve to 

 intensify the faith we entertain that given the discovery 

 of the totality of the symptoms there is absolutely no 

 morbid condition affecting the animal system (human or 

 otherwise) that would not yield to a horaoeopathically-selected 

 drug; the fact that there are so many failures to effect cures, 

 in what some consider incurable cases, owes its existence 

 both in medical and veterinary practice to the non-recog- 

 nition of the totality of symptoms, or to belief that the changes of 

 structure that take place in some organs by reason of the invasiou 

 of inflammation, are not capable of restoration to either their nor- 

 mal condition or their original utility; our faith only demands the 

 discovery and recognition of the totality of the symptoms to enable 

 drugs to effect anything in the shape of restoration to health and 

 usefulness. 



Digitalis IX. — Irregular and intermittent pulse as observed at 

 the artery that winds round the under jaw; regurgitation in the 

 jugular veins; dropsy, as evinced by swelling of the legs, may be 

 accepted as the leading indications for this drug. 



Spigelia ix. — A most helpful remedy in cardiac affections asso- 

 ciated with rheumatism; moreover, it includes within the .sphere 



