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e Elements of Veterinary Homoeopathy/ and if he will take 
the trouble to turn to pp. 194 and 195 of that volume, he will 
find that I prescribe the above-named remedies for the disease 
in question ; and it is from this source my opponent appears 
to have derived his hints ; he has, however, failed to supply 
the reader with the facts upon which I base my recommenda- 
tion of its use in this affection ; I will, therefore, take the 
liberty to do so myself, by which means a correct judgment 
can be formed as to whether or not the medicine he prescribed 
upon the principle involved in the Hahnemannic law. 
“ Thick wind,” I state, “ is an affection which is very apt to 
supervene upon an attack of influenza or bronchitis, or, in 
fact, upon any form of epidemic disease which may exert its 
force upon the air passages. I look upon this affection, w hen 
arising from the causes enumerated above, to depend upon 
nervous debility , and upon the existence of a low inflammatory 
action within the mucous tissue of the larynx , trachea , and bronchi . 
Now, arsenic causes nervous debility, and also an inflamma- 
tory action upon the mucous membrane of the bronchi, of 
this we have an abundance of proof, and it is for these 
similar states which I believe to be present in thick wind 
(when arising from the source I have intimated), that I re- 
commend arsenic. In a volume entitled c An Abstract of the 
Proceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association for 1840 
and 1841,’ p. 128, an account is given of several cases of 
poisoning by means of arsenic; it is contributed by Mr. 
Tombs, veterinary surgeon, of Pershore, he describes the 
symptoms as follows: 6 pulse 105; respiration laborious , deep^ 
and accelerated / afterwards he describes the breathing as 
having become 6 exceedingly laborious / while the post-mortem 
appearances are described as follows: c congestion 9 and f in- 
creased vascularity 9 of the mucous membrane of the air passages, 
‘ also of the pleura pulmonalis and costalis .’ 99 
Again, in the Veterinarian for 1844, p. 23, is an account of 
poisoning of sheep by arsenic,* in w hich 
“The larynx, trachea, bronchi, and parenchyma were much 
inflamed.” 
We are also told by Mr. Dun in his w r ork, ‘ Veterinary 
Medicines, their Action and Uses,’ “the post-mortem appear- 
ances of poisoning by arsenic, are very similar in all animals.” 
“The lungs are usually congested, and 
their mucous membrane, as also that of the urino-genital 
organs, is very red and vascular.” Again, Dr. Black, in an 
article which he has written upon arsenic, says, “ when a 
powerful impression has been made by arsenic on the system^ 
* Communicated to the 1 Veterinarian / by Professor Dick. 
