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T. J. GUNNING. 
several hours. I made a digital examination, but could feel 
nothing, as none of the pups had entered the superior strait. 
In the proving of nux vomica we find “ twitchings of the mus¬ 
cles of the face, pulse imperceptible, labor pains cease.” Nux 
was the prescription, and I told the owner I would return in 
about an hour with forceps. It was about an hour and a half 
before I returned. The owner met me, smiling, saying about 
fifteen minutes after I left she seemed to brighten up, the pains 
returned, and in about half an hour the first puppy was born, 
and when I arrived she had five. 
Hoping that what I have written will induce you to investi¬ 
gate homoeopathy, before you condemn it, I will close with a 
quotation from Dr. Sharp: 
“ We are not entitled to reject anything which professes to 
be a fact, if supported by a sufficient amount of evidence, merely 
because it is inconsistent with our expectations ; it does not 
coincide with our previous opinions, or is not within the limits 
of our former experience.” * 
TETANY; OR, REFLEX NERVOUS IRRITATION. 
By Dr. T. J. Gunning, D.V.S., Neponsit, Ill. 
(A paper read before the Illinois State Veterinary Medical Society.) 
In presenting this subject I may not be presenting anything 
new to most of the profession, and yet to some it may be of 
interest, especially to the younger practitioners. Tetany is alto¬ 
gether different from tetanus, and I think is not mentioned by 
any of our veterinary text-books, so far as I know, and I have 
used the name given by some of our ablest human practitioners. 
Tetany is strictly a reflex condition, while tetanus, I believe, to 
be a direct irritation of the nerves. 
* The Small Dose of Ho?nceopathy. By Dr. Sharp. 
