2l8 VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY. 



heard post-mortem congestion of the king, on the side the dead 

 horse had lain for some hours, seriously described as inflamma- 

 tion; it is therefore desirable that a more intelligent appreciation 

 of the meaning of these words should be accepted by those who 

 peruse these pages. Congestion of the kidneys is not frequently 

 met with in the horse, a somewhat remarkable fact when we bear 

 in mind that it is capable of development as the result of intro- 

 ducing into the system such irritant agents as Turpentine and 

 Cantharides, both of which are frequently use4 as outward appli- 

 cations in connection with blistering and stimulating operations; 

 we have known more than one case where distinct evidence of 

 renal congestion was shown following a blister applied to the loins 

 for a sprained back caused by a horse over-jumpingin the hunting 

 field; and one case in which a horse had an application of Turpen- 

 tine over his ribs for congestion of the lungs; the best antidote in 

 such cases is Camphor; the fact remains, however, as a standing 

 monument in proof of the truth of the principles of Homoeopathy, 

 inasmuch as both these drugs prove remedial in all simple cases of 

 congestion of the kidneys when brought on from cold or following 

 upon some specific fever. It is desirable in all cases to observe 

 the sj^mptoms which indicate a congested condition of the kid- 

 neys, in order to prevent its developing into true inflammation, 

 and probably one of the earliest of these is suppression of urine; 

 the horse will repeatedly posture himself, as for the act of mictur- 

 ition, and strain out a few drops only of thick, turbid urine, some- 

 times accompanied with a little blood, but the latter will not 

 always be observable to the naked eye, while yet again, the red 

 coloring material may be distinctly observable and no blood 

 corpuscles visible under the microscope, these being present in a 

 broken-up state. The constitutional symptoms are not sufficiently 

 marked to enable one to rely upon them as a sure indication that 

 the horse is wrong, therefore we shall pass on to the 



Treatment. — Provided that Turpentine is not the cause of con- 

 gestion, there is no remedy more likely to prove effectual than Tere- 

 binthina 3X. Other remedies, such as Belladonna , Mercurius corro- 

 sivus, Ca^iiharis and Arsenic have produced congested kidneys and 

 would no doubt prove serviceable under given conditions, but these 

 it is not worth while reverting to, in face of the almost invariable 

 success of Terebinth. There is, however, one condition that may 



