10 SPECIAL EQUINE THEEAPY 



SYSTEM IN MEDICATION 



It may be appropriate to devote a few pages to the 

 discussion of what might be termed medical exhibition. 

 I mean by this the individual dosage in a particular 

 case of any disease. I believe that most of our veterinary 

 doses are excessive. I also believe that most of our doses 

 are unnecessary. With exceptional opportunities for 

 becoming familiar with a much greater than usual num- 

 ber of medicinal agents, I find that I am able to meet 

 most ordinary pathological conditions almost without the 

 use of drugs. 



When I do find it necessary to employ medicinal mat- 

 ter I find that I get the best results from the use of doses 

 that are in nearly every case much smaller than the ac- 

 cepted standards. 



This is not because I have greater knowledge of the 

 action of drugs. I believe it is wholly from the fact that 

 I make better use of the natural assistance inherent in 

 our patients. More clearly, I give my patients the op- 

 portunity to benefit by this inherent assistance; I give 

 them a chance. I have no ear for homeopathy! But 

 neither have I for the automatic gradation of doses, based 

 on human medicine, stiU employed too largely by the 

 veterinary profession. 



I have taken extraordinary steps along this line. I 

 have had the good fortune to have been in a position in 

 which I could put theory into practice, and I am sin- 

 cerely satisfied that the average veterinarian does his 

 medical cases but little real good. By far the majority 

 of recoveries which he credits to his treatment are not 

 the result of his treatment, but rather the result of his 

 patient having had sufficient stamina to overcome not 

 only the disease, but the injudicious dosage of drugs as 

 well. Our patients differ markedly from the human pa- 



