UK VIEW — MANUAL OF VETERINARY HOMOEOPATHY. 71 1 
passed the autumn in a low and damp pasturage, and a great many 
fell ill. After killing one, I knew the affection with which they 
were attacked to be dropsy. I then made them take 6 ? ° of digi- 
talis in a quantity of water sufficient to soak 50 pints of peeled 
potatoes that I had given to all the flock. At the end of fourteen 
days I destroyed one of them, that seemed at the beginning of this 
business to be more seriously attacked than any of the others, and I 
found no case of dropsy. I lost only the two beasts that were 
killed.” The conclusion which he draws does not appear to be a 
strictly legitimate one; but we will pass on to others. 
Mention has already been made of the power of arnica as a 
tonic and diaphoretic. It now appears as a styptic. “ The castra- 
tion of animals is frequently a dangerous operation. Haemorrhage 
often attends it that is with difficulty arrested. Dr. Laville de 
Laplaigne says that arnica presents to the veterinary surgeon an 
inappreciable resource. He washes all the wounded parts with 
arnicated water in the dose of two drops to an ounce of water. 
He afterwards staunches them with compresses soaked in the 
same liquid. He then makes the animal drink, every two hours, 
a little water into which have been thrown two drops of the 
arnica of the fifth dilution. Where compresses cannot be applied, 
the parts are washed with this lotion frequently in the day. In 
spite of the employment of the arnica both externally and inter- 
nally, fever sometimes supervenes after the operation ; he then uses 
the aconitum with the arnica in doses of from 8 to 10 globules of 
the 10th dilution. 
Catarrh is with us a simple disease, generally treated in a 
very simple manner, and yet efficiently. Herr Schmager gives a 
curious account of the manner in which he, a homoeopathist, treats 
it. “ From the onset I give generally one or two doses of 
Aconitus Napellus (wolf’s-bane); I follow this immediately with 
a dose of opium, which I administer in the morning, fasting, 
and repeat it on the morrow. The nasal mucosities become then 
thicker, and the inflammation of the nose diminishes. At the end 
of three days, I almost always give -fg sulphur (! !), which stops 
the cough and the solution of mucus ; but if the difficulty of 
breathing and the cough increase, I give sponge, briony, and 
chamomile, with success. If the disease attacks the head, I give 
the napellus and belladonna, and follow it up with toxicodendron . 
These three medicines have with me always proved sufficient. 
If the animal is dull or torpid, I administer opium, digitalis, and 
arnica. 
“When the affection extends to the throat and the organs of 
deglutition, the animal swallows with difficulty, and its respiration 
becomes hard and noisy. Solid as well as liquid aliments can 
scarcely pass, and return often by the nose : above all, a painful 
