HOMOEOPATHY AND DUMB ANIMALS

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Two of them were as large as a nickel coin and the appearance of the excrescences was just like a cauliflower. After a short study of the repertory I administered one dose of Thuja 10M. The curative action could be seen after two days from the administration of the remedy by the shrink age ad disappearance of the last appearing growths and in the improvement of the appetite.

Recently I had a very interesting case in a fowl. I report this with much pleasure, claiming no praise for myself, as I am far from being a good prescriber, but with the hope that it may create or increase the belief in the power of the high potencies in the cure of the sick, be the patient a human being, or just one of those animals which is customary for the people of the United States to eat and relish on Thanksgiving day.

In the fourth patio of our house we have a small corral with a few hens and turkeys kept there so that we may have always at hand fresh eggs and meat. While feeding them one day my aunt noticed that one of the female turkeys had some horrible looking “pimples on the head and that the appetite of the bird was far from good. As I am considered the house doctor, she brought the bird to me and asked me to prescribe something quickly, being much afraid that the disease might be contagious and would contaminate the rest of the fowls.

I was busy at the time and did not pay much attention to the matter until that evening when I saw the possibilities of trying our and further convincing myself of the curative power of the potentized drugs. I went to see the fowl which presented four warty growths on one side of the head and three on the other side, with one or two that were beginning to develop further down the neck. Two of them were as large as a nickel coin and the appearance of the excrescences was just like a cauliflower. After a short study of the repertory I administered one dose of Thuja 10M. The curative action could be seen after two days from the administration of the remedy by the shrink age ad disappearance of the last appearing growths and in the improvement of the appetite. At the end of two weeks the rest had dried up and fallen.

I believe there is open a wide field in the use of the high potencies in the cure of domestic animals and I hope to further experiment in the farm along this line.

I think also that although prescribing in the case of animals has to be done wholly on subjective symptoms, the choosing of the remedy does not have to be so much the similimum to bring about a cure as when treating human beings in which you have the subtle shades of the mental symptoms into consideration.

Then too, in the animals you find less interference with the remedy than on people as the latter very often are prejudiced as to the virtues of the sugar disks and powders and like to add this or that of the old school, or they do not want to leave off their bad habits, or are inveterate wine or coffee drinkers, or still have been doped and drugged the limit with all kinds of hypodermics and serums which imprint a drug disease and make the recovery of those individuals under the homoeopathic remedy more difficult.

DURANGO, MEXICO.

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