HOMOEOPATHY IN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
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I have treated several cases of purpura hemorrhagica, and 
lost one, and could mention many more diseases, but this is 
sufficient. 
A few more peculiar cases to be mentioned, and I will close : 
A black dog, of uncertain breed, was brought to me, suffer¬ 
ing from sciatic rheumatism he had had for five months, hav¬ 
ing been under treatment by two prominent veterinarians. For 
a month nothing had been done, as the case was considered 
hopeless. The entire right leg was greatly atrophied. I could 
get no symptoms at all peculiar, so I gave the lady that brought 
it a few powders of sugar of milk, and told her to call again 
in three days. I read everything I could on sciatica, and 
found in the proving of dioscorea (wild yam) : “ Pain in the 
right leg, from point of exit of sciatic nerve, felt only on mov¬ 
ing limb.” 
When the patient returned there was no improvement. I 
then gave dioscorea, and told the lady to call in a week. She 
reported that improvement began in four days, and he was then 
perfectly well. The muscles have since developed, until now 
the leg is natural. The same lady had a small terrier that had 
been vomiting for several days. The only thing peculiar about 
it was that every time it drank it induced vomiting, and there 
was great thirst. This I thought was a clear case for arsenic, 
for we find, in proving of arsenic, “ great thirst, vomiting aggra¬ 
vated by drinking cold water.” I gave arsenic, but to my sur¬ 
prise, was telephoned for the next day to call and see the dog, 
which had not improved. On careful questioning, I found that 
the vomiting did not occur until about fifteen minutes after 
drinking. In the proving of phosphorus we find “great thirst, 
vomiting of water as soon as it gets warm in the stomach .” 
Phosphorus was given, and that was the last of the vomiting, 
as I called the next day to inquire. 
One evening I was called to see an English setter bitch 
that had been in labor for fourteen hours. She was lying 
completely exhausted ; there were occasional twitchings of the 
muscles of the face and body. There had been no pains for 
