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ON HOMOEOPATHY. 
10th regiment of Cuirassiers may inspire the members of his pro- 
fession with an assurance of his good faith, and that, so far from 
fearing a severe examination of the facts detailed in the preceding 
statements, all he is anxious for is that they would make such 
examination for themselves. 
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
Aurum, pidsatilla, calcarea carbonica, bryonia , belladonna, 
aconitum, acidum phosphor icum. In choosing from among these 
remedies, and determining on the dilution to be employed, regard 
must be had to the symptoms of each case, and to the stage of the 
affection. 
Thus, the dilutions employed have always been the third, the 
sixth, the ninth, the fifteenth, and sometimes the thirtieth ; and 
the dose has been from two to three drops of each dilution poured 
upon three or four grains of sugar of milk in powder, which is 
administered fasting in the morning on the tongue of the horse, by 
means of a little bone spoon, care being taken not to give any food 
for two hours afterwards, and then giving un barbotage and some 
straw ; afterwards, during the rest of the day, and until a fresh 
dose, the ordinary diet may be taken. 
The doses are to be repeated every two days, until some per- 
ceptible aggravation of the symptoms is remarked, on the cessa- 
tion of which aggravation a fresh dose must be administered, if 
there is no improvement ; and it is only in case of a well-marked 
amelioration of the affection that the interval between the doses is 
to be extended, which should then be given only every eight or 
fifteen days. The interval between the doses, when improvement 
begins to take place, must be left to the discretion and experience 
of the practitioner. 
In farcy, dulcamara is a specific. Two drops of the third, 
ninth, or fifteenth dilution in sugar of milk, administered in the 
way above described, form the dose, according to the degree of the 
disease. Almost all our horses have been cured with this medica- 
ment. 
Note. — Vigorous horses with good constitutions, offering greater 
resistance to the homoeopathic medicines, are sooner and more 
radically cured ; while horses of a less strong constitution, or 
weakened by disease, offering less resistance, recover more slowly, 
and sometimes fall into an irremediable state of consumption. 
P. Merson, 
Capitaine-instructeur au 10*' de Cuirassiers. 
Nov. 16 th, 1843. 
