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c.. E. SAYRE. 
I must confess that it was with some misgivings I put a few 
drops in a four-ounce bottle, and ordered a half ounce every 
half hour until my return, which I did in about four hours, and 
found my patient up and eating hay. Before leaving I cautioned 
the groom to call me during the night if he showed evidence of 
pain. I called about 9 A.M. the next day, and found him com¬ 
fortable, having eaten a bran mash, pulse 40, but no movement 
from the bowels. This was puzzling, as he had now gone 
twenty-four hours without a movement. I was strongly tempted 
to give a laxative and enemas, but reasoned if the trouble is not 
being relieved the pain he showed last night would have in¬ 
creased, he would not eat, and the pulse would be higher instead 
of lower. So I concluded to let him alone. About 9 P.M. his 
bowels moved naturally, and he was apparently as well as ever. 
This is a fair description of at least a dozen cases. 
All cases of impaction do not exhibit these symptoms, but 
a great majority of them do. The great difficulty in treating 
animals homceopathically is the lack of symptoms which are 
characteristic of a remedy. Frequently we have to prescribe 
on one or two characteristics, whereas in human practice one 
can always get at least three and often a dozen symptoms, which 
the patient can tell. It is the symptoms of the individual case 
on which the homceopathist makes his prescription. It is not 
enough to know that a horse has pneumonia. The thirst or 
lack of it, the period of time in which he is better or worse, 
color of nasal discharge, if any, temperament, etc., all assist in 
making a homoepathic prescription. 
The proving of remedies have thus far been on healthy per¬ 
sons. Before homoeopathy can attain its greatest usefulness in 
veterinary practice, remedies will have to be proven on all of the 
different animals. Doubtless the symptoms are the same with 
many remedies, as we have found they must be in our practice, 
prescribing on symptoms developed in man. But there must be 
some differences which may account for failures in some cases. 
I have treated seven cases of tetanus that I can remember 
homceopathically, and lost one. 
