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pulse is frequent. Frequency is but one element of the lesion^ 
and we have to determine in addition the strength and weakness 
of the circulation and the conditions of the nervous system that 
control this function. Where there is strength with frequency 
veratrum veride is indicated. Feebleness with frequency calls 
for aconite. In excitation of the nervous system with strength 
and frequency gelsemium is indicated. Atony of the nervous 
system and tendency to stasis of blood calls for aconite and bel¬ 
ladonna. For feeble impulse from the heart without capillary 
obstruction digitalis is indicated. To be a good therapeutist a 
man must be well versed in every department of medicine ; be 
capable of observing and reasoning ; he cannot practice with 
success unless he is both. “ Dependence upon authority dwarfs 
the mind, obscures the senses, and forms an almost impassable 
barrier to individual observations.” 
For example, I will briefly mention a few cases : 
Case /.—Grey mare, seven years old, weight about 1600. 
Saw case Sept. 10, 1897, 7 p. m., temperature 104°, pulse 70, 
respiration 25, moist painful cough, muscular soreness of whole 
body ; she could hardly be made to move ; pressure over respir¬ 
atory organs caused much pain ; owner said she had been get¬ 
ting worse for two days and had not eaten anything ; drank 
some water. Gave bryonia sp. tr., 3 j; aquae, 3 viij ; table¬ 
spoonful every hour with orders to lengthen time between dose 
if she got better. I saw her next day, iith, at 4 p. m. ; found 
her eating, which I was informed she commenced to do at noon 
very little cough, no soreness of muscles, pulse and tempera¬ 
ture normal. 
Case 11 .—Bay pony horse, six years old, weight 800. 9 A.M., 
pulse 76, temperature 104^°, respiration 40; had not eaten 
anything to speak of for 24 hours ; extreme muscular soreness, 
painful cough. Gave bryonia every hour. He was in a per¬ 
fectly normal condition at 4 p. m. 
I would like to mention many other cases of different dis¬ 
eases, also injuries, lamenesses, etc., but I will just say that there 
are three classes of symptoms that we must study, to wit: Ob- 
