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in Chicago. The superintendents of both were not believers in 
homoeopathy when it was first used in their stables, but the loss 
was so much less that they were compelled to adopt it. They 
are now both staunch homoeopaths. 
In my own practice I have not kept any record whereby I 
can give any statistics. But I have certainly met with remark¬ 
able successes. During the winter of 1892 and 1893 I treated 
twenty-nine cases of azaturia (which under allopathic treatment 
we expect to lose 75%) homceopathically, and lost four. The 
winter of 1893 and 1894 I treated thirteen, and lost none. This 
winter I have treated but two, and lost both ; one of these, a 
large 1,800 pound horse, laid in a stone quarry all night, and 
had been down twenty-four hours before I saw it. He improved 
considerably, and got so he could walk about for fifteen minutes 
at a time, but the bruising he received on the stones caused im¬ 
mense sloughs in his shoulders and hips, which, I think, was the 
cause of death. 
For three years I have treated all cases homceopathically, 
with the exception of some few cases of colic, which had re¬ 
ceived large doses of opium before my arrival, when I have 
found it necessary to administer a cathartic to counteract the 
effect of the opium. In the three years I have not found it 
necessary to use a trochar more than once on the same patient, 
except in one case, as the homoeopathic remedy prevented the 
further formation of gas, and all cases have been ready to work 
the next day (except those mentioned which had received 
a cathartic), as there was no drug disease to recover from. I 
have lost some cases, but very few ; on three of those I have 
held post-mortem examinations ; two had ruptured stomachs, 
and one a ruptured colon. 
Colocynth and carbo-vegetabilis are the remedies most fre¬ 
quently indicated in colic. In the proving of colocynth we 
find “ gripping in the epigastrium, cramps in the stomach, pain 
relieved bending double, abdomen distended, tympanitis, incar¬ 
cerated flatus, diarrhoea, stool accompanied by a great discharge 
of wind.” Some of these symptoms are to be found in nearly 
