CASES FROM VETERINARY PRACTICE.

BY DR. H. FISCHER, OF BERLIN. Translated for the HOMOEOPATHIC ENVOY from Hom. Monatsblaetter, July, 1903.

DIPHTHERIA IN A ROOSTER.

An adherent of our method had a valuable breed of chickens which gave him great pleasure. One day a very fine rooster appeared sick, shook his head, would not eat, and made motions showing that he had pains in his throat. He sent to me, but as I was not in, he asked me to call. In the meantime, he had the rooster placed in a covered basket and took it himself to the Clinic of the Royal Veterinary Institute. There he presented his rooster, which was at once surrounded by the young practitioners and the leading professor, and the rooster proved a very interesting subject; for it is not every day that a case of diphtheria is found among chickens. The professor delivered a lecture on the disease, and after the rooster had been packed into the basket again, its owner asked: "Well, Professor, what shall I do with the rooster?" He answered him: "Nothing can be done in such a case, kill the rooster aud bury him in a deep hole, so that the other chickens will not also catch it."

When I saw the rooster, the whole bill and buccal cavity and throat were covered with fungi. I gave him at once Mercurius cyanatus 6, three pellets being put in its bill every hour, giving also lukewarm water in which some of the remedy was dissolved. The owner had the pleasure of soon seeing his rooster strutting about again.

He could not refrain from again taking the rooster to the clinic of the Institute, but the professor asked what he brought the rooster for, as he was quite healthy. The owner answered that that was all he wanted to know, that he had been before advised to kill the fowl, because it had diphtheria. He had not done so, but had it treated homoeopathically, and the fowl, as stated just now by the professor, had made a perfect recovery. That was surely Dr. Fischer with his "drops," said the professor.

As is well known to our readers, Mercurius cyanatus has also been adopted into the materia medica of allopaths, and has had its successes also with them.

CURE OF EPILEPSY IN A COW.

Mr. Sch., in L., Alsatia, wrote to me in May of last year and asked my advice and aid for a cow belonging to him. His report of the case was exact and lengthy. The patient was a young cow about

to calve the second time. Mr. Sch. wrote that she is somewhat delicate, but has always been healthy; nor had he found any such convulsive symptoms in any of the breed which he has now had in his stable for fifteen years. I gave the rest of the report verbatum:

About four weeks ago the cow was going to drink; warm water for this purpose is brought every evening into the cattle yard. Scarcely had she begun to stoop down to drink, when she started back again, winking with her eyes, trembling all over the body, continually stepping backward, lifting up her head higher and higher, till it looked as if she would break her neck. Mr. Sch. was of opinion that a cow never could raise its head that high, except when in spasms. Her back then bends in as if she would collapse, though this has not as yet happened. The animal is continually biting and gnashing with its teeth, as if something was sticking in its throat. in its throat. The attacks lasted about five minutes, after which she appeared perfectly normal. These attacks occurred about four times a week, and I now remember that they had occurred several times before I took much note of them. The owner thought it was mania and had given Antimonium crud. and Nux vom., but without any ef ect. The attacks occurred almost regularly, but he did not know their cause.

The diagnosis seemed certainly to point to epilepsy. The allopathic treatment of this disease consists in giving Bromide of Potassium, Lunar caustic, infusion of Belladonna, Valerianum, or Chloral hydrate. In fatening animals the old school recommends their being slaughtered, giving an unfavorable prognosis.

My experience in treating with homoeopathic remedies does not exclude a reasonable prospect of recovery, and in my records I find almos invariably a recover from the use of the same remedy. I sent Mr. Sch. Causticum, Hyoscyamus nig. and Stramonium, all in the sixth decimal dilution, prescribing ten drops, four times a day on a little bread. If the first remedy should not effect a cure in a week, the next remedy should be tried in the same way.

In a week Mr. Sch. reported that the attacks had not returned after giving the first four doses; that the animal seemed perfectly healthy. As I have lately heard there has been no relapse since.

Those who use the homeopathic remedies correctly and properly will be saved from losses and preserve their cattle.

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A WAIL FROM THE REGULARS.-Dr. G. Frank Lydston, in the N. Y. and Phila. Medical Journal, writes: "Organization, alone, can save the profession from absolute degeneracy, and elevate it to a plane where it will receive the meed of respect due it from

the laity. Once the public and its legislators become convinced that the medical profession is a potent factor in politics, the way will be easy."

It is doubtful if Dr. Lydston expresses the sentiments of the best men among the "regulars," for surely no good physician would want to rise by means of "organization" and by becoming "a potent factor in politics." If a doctor's work among the sick will not gain the respect of the public, certainly political "pull" will not do it. You do not find good homoeopathic doctors scheming "to rise to higher things" by means of politics.

SUPERSTITIONS.-We recently read a learned paper in a medical journal on "superstitions," and at the time wondered if the writer did not belong to the modern superstitious caste. All the popular beliefs he contemptuously held up to scorn; some merited ridicule, some did not.

Again we read that the scientific ones have "discovered" that bee-stings have power to "cure rheumatism" and forthwith they are setting about making a "serum" from bee-stings. Why? Why not

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give the stings of the bee poison direct without being hocus pocused through a horse? Because there steps in the superstition of the so-called "scientific." No man knows how many serums have been made, but they cover nearly every dis

ease.

The homoeopaths have used bee-stings, or Apis melifica, for rheumatism-when indicated—for the past half century, and had no use for a "serum" of it. Similarly they have used Diphtherinum which will do all in a curative way that "antitoxin serum will without the latter's evil effects. So with all the "serums." However, like all superstitions, the serum one must be out-grown, even as was the one of withholding water from fever parched patients by the sires of the present race.

SUSCEPTIBILITY TO TUBERCULOSIS.-Dr. F. L.

Bishop, in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, says that the whole thing comes down to a matter of susceptibility; if we are susceptible to tuberculosis we can hardly escape, while if we are not susceptible we can scarcely get it if we try. Respectfully referred to the scientific microbe "boards of health."

DIPHTHERIA. This is the accepted (in scientific circles) definition of diphtheria:

"Diphtheria is an acute infectious and communicable disease characterized by the production of false membrane on a mucous or abraded skin surface, and due to the presence and proliferation of the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus and the toxines elaborated in its growth."-Nothnagel.

The eager seekers after truth may, by this description, be able to discern the disease when he meets it, but isn't it a lame definition of its cause? Easy, of course, to detect the bacilli, and restful to put the cause of the disease on them and their "toxins," but not very satisfying to one who really wants to know the truth.

Take twenty children, make sure that not one of them has a "Klebs-Loeffler" in its throat or else

where, put them to sleep nightly in a sterilized and fumigated room, but into which sewer gas freely escapes, and what is the result? Diphtheria and "Klebs-Loefflers" galore in some of the children yet others will escape. Why? You must read the answer in Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, where it is shown that the real cause of disease dates back to your ancestors and that the cure must be found in Homœopathy and not in microbe killers and antitoxines.

Given a constitution with a clean heredity and no concealed chronic miasms and it can laugh the "germs "to scorn. For the real "germ " of disease

is within and not without.

TO PREVENT APPENDICITIS.—“ I have been called on to treat many cases of chronic appendicitis and have had no difficulty in relieving every patient permanently within a few days after the proper water drinking habit was established. In fact, in acute and chronic appendicitis water drinking will be found almost a specific cure, except when suppuration has occurred and operative measures are imperative."-Dr. Herbert C. Parkyn in Suggestion.

"Crib Steam

HOW TO KILL A BABY WITH PNEUMONIA. in far corner of room with canopy over it. kettle; gas stove (leaky tubing). Room at 80 F. Many gas jets burning. Friends in the room, also the pug dog. Chest tightly enveloped in waistcoat poultice. If child's temperature is 105 F. make a poultice thick, hot and tight. Blanket the windows, shut the doors. If these do not do it, give coal tar antipyretics and wait."—Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery.

ANTITOXIN.-A contributor to the Medical Brief,

writes:

"Recently a niece of mine, living in northern New York, returned from a visit with a slight sore throat. Her father thought it was diphtheria. The family physician was summoned immediately and concurred in his opinion. The doctor, an antitoxinist, thought the disease so light it would require but little treatment. The next morning he summoned a physician in consultation. They prescribed antitoxin. The patches would partly go,

then recur. The case continued four or five weeks when they pronounced it cured. During the interval they used sixty-eight thousand (68,000) units of antitoxin, costing about $100.00.

About two weeks after reporting the case cured, I find the girl is still confined to her bed. The physician is afraid to allow her to assume a standing position for fear of paralysis of the heart. In this use of antitoxin, a prominent physician of Utica recommended a continuance of the remedy. The girl is about eighteen years of age. Have you seen anything to beat this?"

THE RESULT.-"Finally when positive orders came that 3,000 men should be vaccinated we asked for dressings for the sores. Our wards were full of vaccination erysipelas. The requisition papers were made out and promptly sent, and for these 3,000 men we obtained one-half a roll of adhesive plaster, one-half a package of pins, and six bandages."-Dr. T. E. Bunts in International Journal of Surgery.

Wards full of "vaccination erysipelas!" We believe that we have heard that vaccination is "absolutely safe and harmless."

SPREADING SMALL-POX.-Groff-we quote from N. Y. Medical Journal-says of the transmission of small-pox:

"(1) The disease can only be transmitted directly by the patient. Never in the author's experience has it been conveyed by a physician, nurse, or