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have recovered anyhow, but that is something one might say 
about any case and whatever the treatment, excepting, of 
course, in surgery. 
Belladonna is well known to you. That, again, is a drug 
which doubtless you all have used homceopathically. Take one 
instance only, that of pharyngitis. Belladonna has in its prov¬ 
ing the same inflamed, dry, sore-throat for which we are in the 
habit of prescribing it. In conjunctivitis and various other 
inflammations of the eye it is widely used. 
Its sphere is almost unlimited, and it would be useless for 
me to do more than mention it. In one case of a horse subject 
to fits, as the owner said, I used it for two weeks, reducing the 
number of attacks from one or more daily to one during the 
fortnight. Unfortunately, I left the place then, and am unable 
to state whether a permanent cure resulted. 
In the Medical Advance for October, 1893, are reported a 
number of cases from which I shall quote, in all of which the 
treatment was successful. 
Rhus toxicodendron, the sumach or poison oak, was used in 
case of a horse lame forward. Conium, or hemlock, was used 
in several cases of azoturia. As far as I can find out, conium is 
homoeopathic to the paralysis of the disease. As azoturia may, 
and often does result fatally, it strikes me that conium is well 
worth a trial. 
Pneumonia with phosphorus for a remedy, glonoin or nitro¬ 
glycerin was given to a horse with blind staggers. 
Kali carb., carbonate of potash in leucorrhoea in bitch with 
general inflammation of the genitalia. 
Arsenic in diarrhoea in an ox and in chicken cholera. 
What I have said will be a nucleus on which to build to 
those of you who are at all interested in the subject. Remem¬ 
ber that I have merely touched on a very few of the drugs 
which are in daily use by homceopathists. My knowledge of the 
subject is very limited, but the more time I give to it the more 
I am convinced that on the whole it is the most rational system 
of medicine known at the present day. I can only say, don’t 
