At weaning, the puppies receive for a week one dose daily of the 30th potency, and nothing more for a month. At the expiration of a mouth, the puppies receive for a week a daily dose of the 200th potency, and nothing more for a month. At the expiration of the month, each puppy receives three doses, one at two hourly intervals, of the 1,000th potency. After this, at monthly intervals, each puppy receives an increased potency, three doses at two hourly intervals until he has received one of the C. mm. strength.
This completes the course, and though it may be looked upon as irksome to some, still it is better than shooting them with serum of some kind and losing them all. I am convinced that where this procedure is carried out, it is possible to raise puppies to maturity without their developing this dread disease. Furthermore, even after this, when one knows that they are going to be exposed to a, so to speak, concentrated exposure, such as an indoor show or the like, there is nothing to hinder one, a few days prior to this, from giving three doses in quick succession of a potency of this product, and in that way pad their immunity a little more.
Another line that is interesting me just now is to give pregnant bitches, irrespective of whether they may have had the disease, or been immunized against it, a course of potencies during their pregnancy, to try and start the immunization of the puppies in utero. This is a peculiar field for homoeopathy. By means of the deeply acting anti-psoric remedies, the lowest strata of perverted life where it first established itself in impurities in the finest fibres and cellular structures, can be restored.
Medicines chosen wisely and given to the expectant bitch, can benefit the coming puppies. Frequently, with the indicated remedy, anatomical and structural deficiencies as cleft palate, hare-lip, eczema, etc., can be prevented in families where such have appeared, because the taint that gave rise to them in former pregnancies has been neutralised by the timely administration of the homoeopathic antipsoric remedies.
Of course I am often asked by veterinarians who are absolutely sceptical in regard to homoeopathy, “What on earth has your product to do with the actual virus of canine distemper, or dont you believe in the existence of such an entity?” Of course I believe and know that there is such an entity, but in just what relation it really stands in connection with the disease itself I am frank to admit that I do not really know, and furthermore, I dont think anybody else does.
We all agree that it is less the presence of the organism than the suitability of the tissues for its growth that determines the disease. But is this pre-disposition itself the disease be it a condition to be defined electrically, chemically, or whatever and do the organisms result from it, or does the disease require the organisms plus the pre-disposition? Some have occasionally suggested the former view. Whatever the future may disclose we must admit that organisms, and viruses are associated with disease, have recognisable characteristics and can convey disease.
At least the evidence available at present points overwhelmingly to these conclusions, and that those who deny them have generally only sight acquaintance with this evidence. We must therefore assume that so-called germs of disease are at least in close relation to disease, and although Medorrhinum, Psorinum, and Distemperinum caninum can be held to owe their efficacy, not to the organisms present in the material from which they were originally made, but to some un-named and un-defined substance of disease.
