THE SUPERIORITY OF HOMOEOPATHY IN VETERINARY PRACTICE



One of the outstanding cases at that time was an enormous Percheron horse, a great, big, beautiful dappled-gray animal who had strangury. He was kicking the walls of his stall and the stableman told me that just as soon as he was able to urinate he quieted down. He was apparently comfortable for a long time. I gave Petroselinum 10M. I put a little powder in a cup of water and stirred it and stirred it, and told the stableman to get half a bucket of water. I poured in the water and stirred it very carefully and gave it to the horse. The horse was cured within a few hours. At least he had no further attacks.

A patient of mine in the apple business had fourteen horses in his stable. He came into the office one day for himself, and he happened to mention that thirteen of these horses were afflicted with pink eye, and the veterinary was trying to cure it. I said, “Let me give you some medicine for that.” I took a bottle about a foot and a half high, put in it some water and a powder of Euphrasia, but it looked so thin and watery, I thought I ought to add some kind of coloring matter. The only thing at hand was some whisky, and I put enough whisky in there to make it a light brown.

Several days afterward my friend was in to see me and he said, “Mike called up on the phone the other day and said, “Mr. So-and-so, that booze the doc sent down must have been awfully strong, because it cured the horses in three days.”.

One day I went to see a patient, and there was a kitten going around the room dragging its hind legs. She said to me, “What do you suppose is the matter with that cat?”.

I said, “The cat is constipated.” I gave her a dose of Nux, and she told me that half an hour afterward the cat was messing up the rug.

I would like to ask a couple of questions of Dr. Jervis. Isnt it a fact that the isopathic remedies work more readily and quickly on animals than they do on human beings?.

I could tell several stories about this, but I see my master is looking at me out of the corner of his eye and I had better quit.

There is only one other thing I want to mention. A CM. of Anthrax antidoted an injection of anthracis virus in guinea pigs in Hering College. It was in a class where an old school demonstrator was going to show the effects of this virus, and he injected these guinea pigs. A soft-hearted lady student thought it was too bad to have them suffer so, sneaked around to the room afterward and gave one of them the Anthrax CM. The next day they were all dead but the one, and the man was very much amazed. He said, “We must have missed that one.” They tried it over, and again she went and administered the potency to all of them, and the next day they were all alive. He became a homoeopath.

DR. GRIMMER: This is really a very interesting subject the doctor has brought to us, and it is somewhat related to our work among humans; that is, the contact is quite definite in some instances.

Take the subject of rabies, which has been spoken about. Hydrophobinum in potency will control your rabies in dogs. I had a very interesting experience in Illinois. Two men were bitten by the same dog which, by laboratory test, was found to be rabid. One of them took the Pasteur treatment and the other took the homoeopathic potency. The one who took the Pasteur treatment developed rabies, and the one who had the potency Hydrophobinum did not develop rabies.

The doctor spoke of the difficulties in treating animals. It is true it is difficult to treat dumb animals, and it really takes more discernment to study their symptoms and interpret the remedy. There is one thing that is less difficult, and that is they are not doped with a lot of coal tar and other derivatives that we sometimes find in our human patients. In that way, you have a better chance with your animals.

DR. BOND: I couldnt help but report a little case I had, an experience of a few months ago.

A mother cat, the best mouser on the farm, sitting on the back doorstep one morning with the rectum prolapsed 1 2 inches and oozing a watery yellow stool. Kents Repertory was consulted and Podo. 1M. was given with no results, then followed Merc., Sulph., Calc. phos. and a few others. Finally in despair I thought I had better consult a veterinarian. The rectum was stitched back in place by him and later by myself several times with no lasting results. Finally my faith in homoeopathy said there surely must be something for this poor cat, by this time getting very poor and distressed, after several months.

The veterinarian said the cat was constipated and needed mineral oil. This I gave without any appreciable results. So re- examining, the repertory I again came out to Podo. This time I decided to go high, 50M. Within a few hours the rectum was pulled back in place as magically as anything could have been done mechanically. A repetition of the 50M. a few months later completed the cure. She was able to bear a litter of kittens with no return of the trouble.

This case is interesting from a different angle, namely, that the May Apple grown on the same farm.

DR. SCHMIDT: I would like to mention the experiments done by Dr. Chevinon, of Paris, with Diphtherinum on animals as well as on humans. Dr. Chevinon has vaccinated animals extensively, especially hens, pigs, and other animals, against diphtheria very successfully with the 4M. and the 8M. of the Diphtherinum, obtaining protection for at least five to six years after only one dose of the Diphtherinum in high potency.

DR. MOORE: We call them dumb animals. I dont know what they call us, but you can compare a fox and a man, and the fox can be skinned only once.

DR. SCHWARTZ: I think of the case of a dog that had tetanus, where I practiced in the South. I had been the physician in this family. Even after the dog had anti-tetanus serum, its jaws were locked. I sent down some Magnesia phos. and restored the animal to normal condition.

DR. KETCHAM: I had an experience of being a physician in the very exclusive town of Palo Alto. I have always hesitated to tell this, but since you gentlemen have broken the ice I have to tell it.

I had a herd of cattle, with the Holsteins bred by A. H. Dollar. The Albright Guthrie people had brought them previous to the war and brought them to San Francisco. During the war they had all become infected with tuberculosis, and I bought the cattle simply because I wanted to experiment on them. There were eighteen cows and a bull. After I got them home–they had been passed out as reactors, and as we know tuberculosis is a matter of nutrition I figured these cattle could be brought back to health by homoeopathic methods and building up their resistance- -I called my brother on the scene and we started to feed the cattle and gave them Tuberculinum.

As a result of about six months of hard work we built them up. We had a man in who tested them, and they all passed but one. Out of this herd I developed a cow that made 36,167 pounds of milk and 112 pounds of butter. I wasnt sure that her calves might not be tubercular. I kept her and raised four or five calves.

There was a guaranty sale in 1923, and I took it up with the officials of the sale and told them, “I have a tubercular cow here, and the veterinaries claim all tubercular cattle must be killed.” Here in California, they didnt have any drastic law when I got these cattle, but I saw it was coming.

I bred my herd up to 125 pure-bred Holsteins. Every one of them was clear according to the test, but I picked out the reactors and sent for the state man to come from Davis, and he tested them and said they were all clear. I said, “How can they be clear? They have had nothing but homoeopathic medicine?”.

He said, “You are a little pill man?”.

I said, “Sure.”.

“How long have you been in practice?”.

I said, “I graduated in 1904, and have been practicing homoeopathy ever since.”.

He tested them and pickled out the tops of my herd, and they went over big at the guaranty sale.

DR. SHERWOOD: Dr. Jervis, I wish you would speak about the case of Miss B. It is nothing to do with veterinary medicine, but I wish you would mention it.

DR. JERVIS: This particular case was a lady down in North Hollywood who works for me. She is my chauffeur, and a very interesting lady. She came to me one day with a terrible looking face just below the eye and on the side of the nose. I took her to my friend Sherwood and he prescribed for her, I believe, or did you say, “Let George do it?” Anyway, this went from bad to worse. One evening she pulled up in her car outside my house. I went out with her where she was living, and I saw on the hub of her steering wheel a luminous-faced watch with the glass out. That gave me a thought. I had taken a sample of her blood just a few days previously. I inquired of my apparatus whether there was any possible chance of radium poisoning. It came through with a roar. I hesitated about treating her myself, but my friend Sherwood said, “That is all right: go ahead.”.

Over a more or less long period, the girls face has entirely healed. I dont just remember the various remedies I used, but among them was Radium iodide. I dont think Radium bromide ever came through, but Radium chloride came through on one occasion. Suffice is to say, the girl is perfectly healed and I keep track of her once in a while.

H.B.F. Jervis