HOMEOPATHY IN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
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Causes and morbid conditions are nothing. It is not necessary 
to know the nature of a remedy, how it acts, or upon what it 
acts. If its symptoms correspond to those of the disease the 
physician has done his work well. This reduces the practice of 
medicine to a simplicity. 
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Homeopathic remedies consist practically of tinctures and 
triturates. The tinctures are about the same strength as those 
of the U. S. P. The metallic and insoluble remedies are pre¬ 
pared in milk sugar and dispensed in this form. The strength 
of a remedy is its dilution or potency. To produce a uniform 
series of dilutions a scale was introduced by Hahnemann, called 
the centesimal scale. According to this scale one part of the 
mother tincture or powder is mixed with 99 parts of alcohol or 
milk sugar. This forms the first dilution or potency. One part 
of this dilution in 99 parts of alcohol the second dilution. The 
principle is that the first potency must contain part of the 
strength of the remedy and the succeeding potencies each y-Jy- 
part of the preceding one. 
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But more recently another scale has been introduced—the 
decimal scale. By this scale one part of tincture is diluted with 
ix parts of alcohol, and similarly with the powders, one part in 
ix of milk sugar to form the first potency. In respect to the 
size of the dose authorities vary ; some recommend the higher 
potencies, those above the 30th. Others the 30th potency. 
Others the third dilution of tincture and the sixth of insoluble 
remedies. 
But an exception is made of carbolic acid, aconite, rhus tox., 
bryonia and others which maybe used in the first or even in the 
form of the mother tincture. In applying homeopathy with the 
object of testing its value in treating the diseases of the lower 
animals it is necessary to form at least two classes, these were 
the acute critical and the acute non-critical. Of acute non- 
critical cases one-half were treated with homeopathy and the re¬ 
mainder with no medicine. In non-critical cases of pneumonia 
treated with high or low dilutions or with no medicine I could 
find no substantial difference. The cases ran the course marked 
