MANUAL
—OF—
Veterinary Homeopathy
COMPRISING DISEASES OF
Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Dogs and Poultry
AND THEIR
Homeopathic Treatment
BY
F. HUMPHREYS, M. D., V. S.
LATE PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, ETC., ETC.
Humphreys’ Homeopathic Medicine Co.
Corner William and Ann Streets
NEW YORK
[Illustration:
GOLD MEDAL
Dr. Humphreys’ Remedies received medals in the International
Exhibitions of Hygiene.
Centennial Exhibition Argentine Republic 1910.
Exhibition of Hygiene United States of Brazil 1909.
Exhibition of Hygiene Argentine Republic 1904.
]
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1922, by HUMPHREYS’
HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE COMPANY in the office of the Librarian of Congress,
at Washington.
PREFACE
The world owes much to Homeopathy—more probably, than has ever been
told, or will ever be known. It is something to be emancipated from
drugs, from lancets, leeches, blisters and poisons; but it is more, to
be relieved from the fear of them, and to be restored and preserved by
forces mild as love, and gentle as the dews of heaven—forces unknown and
unrevealed, until elicited by the genius of this system.
But these benefits are not confined to the human species. Animals may
enjoy them as well; and heaven knows how much they need them. For to
them the day of sickness is not merely the day of doom, but of suffering
and of torture as well. Ignorance and cruelty seem to have controlled
this branch of medicine—not that men are of necessity careless in regard
to the lives of their animals, or designed cruel as to the measures used
to restore them when sick; but so little real knowledge prevails
concerning their diseases, and so much error as to the proper methods of
cure, that the most absurd and cruel measures almost of necessity
prevail with corresponding results. Some judicious stock owners, taught
by experience the fatality of the common methods of treatment,
notwithstanding the torture and expense, have more humanely, if not more
wisely, abandoned all treatment, preferring to let nature contend with
disease alone, rather than with disease and drugs united. But, thanks to
Homeopathy, there is a better way.
For many years past, Homeopathy has been applied to the diseases of all
domestic animals in Europe, with the most brilliant success. In this
country, and the British Isles, within the last few years, not only have
individual practitioners applied its remedies with equal success, but
some large veterinary institutions, and most of our principal traveling
equestrian troops and menageries, employ it exclusively in all diseases
of their horses, experience having shown them its great value and
curative power, and its immense superiority over every other method. But
the inherent intricacies of the system rendered its general introduction
for the cure of animals impracticable; and though, in the hands of some
practitioners and some veterinary surgeons, it worked wonders enough to
show its astonishing capacities, yet to the masses it has remained a
sealed book.
The principal of Humphreys’ Homeopathy, which has proved so efficient in
popular use, we have now applied to the diseases of domestic animals,
and, from numerous trials, have proved it an entire success. With this
Case and Manual every owner of stock may know every ailment among them,
and can treat it successfully.
Not among the least benefits conferred by this new method is the ease
and simplicity with which the proper medicine is administered. No tying,
bottling, struggling, or choking are necessary. A neat little glass
instrument (the Medicator) is put into the medicine, and takes up the
requisite dose—a few drops—and at the proper moment, is placed in the
mouth of the animal and discharged; in an instant the dose is given, and
an amount of labor is thus saved to the owner, and of suffering to the
animal, which is by no means trivial. Hundreds of animals annually die,
or are rendered valueless from disease and drugging, that may be saved
and promptly restored by the use of the Case of Veterinary Remedies.
Several of our most experienced horsemen have given it their unqualified
commendation, and use it daily in their establishments.
In the execution of this design I have consulted every authority and
drawn upon every resource within my reach, and the experience of each
has been made to contribute to the perfection of the whole, and all has
been combined and compared with my many years of observation, study, and
experience in the practice of Homeopathy. We flatter ourselves that for
simplicity, completeness, and reliability it will commend itself to the
judgement of a discerning public.
F. HUMPHREYS, M. D., V. S.
INTRODUCTION
Proper and enlightened attention to the wants of Domestic Animals, is
not only a sentiment of humanity, but a dictate of economy. To know at
least in good part what is the particular ailment of an animal, and to
know also how to relieve it, would seem to be a necessary obligation of
ownership. The least we can return to the many faithful animals given
us, is to provide for their reasonable wants, not only in health, but
also in sickness and disease. Not that every man who owns a horse,
should be necessarily a veterinary surgeon; and yet the way is so simple
that any intelligent person may readily cure a very large proportion,
nay, almost every disease to which his animals are exposed, and yet
bestow upon the subject only a moiety of attention.
Among the many blessings that Homeopathy has conferred upon the world,
not among the least is the immense improvement which it has effected in
the treatment of the diseases of Domestic Animals. With but little
variation, to meet their peculiar habits and susceptibilities, the same
remedies which have been so efficient in mitigating and curing the
disease of men, women and children, have been found equally successful
in arresting the diseases to which all classes of Domestic Animals are
liable. The contrast is even greater. Probably from the fact that
treatment of sick animals has been but little understood, and intrusted
to the hands mainly of ignorant persons, who have pursued the most
crude, cruel and destructive measures, often far more dangerous and
life-destroying than the disease itself, a large proportion of the sick
have died or been tortured to death. But when the same diseases are
subjected to the mild and benign influence of intelligent Homeopathic
treatment, it is found that almost every disease among them is within
control, even the most fatal yielding to its magic influences.
Although at first sight it may seem strange, that animals should be
successfully treated by the mild and apparently insignificant doses of
Homeopathy, yet a moment’s reflection will suffice to give many reasons
why this should be so. Even were it not susceptible of explanation,
experience has abundantly demonstrated the fact, that animals are, if
possible, even more susceptible to Homeopathic treatment than men, and
its success in their case is even more striking and brilliant.
This may be, perhaps, attributed to their more regular habits,
confinement to the same food and drink, absence of excitement, and
freedom from the many articles of food and drink in use among the human
species, which are more or less medicinal.
Owing to these circumstances, animals are very impressible, and the
doses for them need not be so much larger than for the human species. It
seems to be a law of nature, that the more delicate the organism, the
more subject to disease. Wild animals are almost entirely exempt, while
the highly artificial lives of some Domestic Animals render them subject
to numerous ailments and to some very formidable diseases. Yet, as a
whole, animals are far less subject to disease than men, and far more
amendable to cure.
The treatment of Domestic Animals with HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES, has
numerous advantages.
THE MEDICINES ARE GIVEN AT ONCE and without trouble or annoyance, even
without taking a horse from his team, or a cow from her stall. THEY
PRODUCE NO POISONOUS OR PROSTRATING EFFECT so that the animal rallies at
once, and without loss or deterioration of value. ANIMALS RECOVER MUCH
SOONER and hence are able to resume work much earlier after sickness,
than under any other system. But more than all, it is far more
successful. Slighter diseases yield at once, and often from a single
dose, while the most formidable cases that are almost absolutely
incurable under old treatment, even when well conducted, often respond
to the curative influence of Humphreys’ Homeopathic Remedies, while it
is well known that even when animals recover under the old system of
treatment such have been the ravages of disease and medicine, that their
value and usefulness are generally destroyed.
ADVANTAGES OF
Humphreys’ Veterinary Remedies
OVER ANY OTHER SYSTEM, OR MODE OF TREATMENT FOR STOCK.
=I—Humphreys’ Veterinary Remedies, are not an experiment.= They have
been in use among FARMERS, BREEDERS, LIVERY STABLE AND TURFMEN, HORSE
RAILROAD, EXPRESS, MINING and MANUFACTURING COMPANIES, MENAGERIES and
HIPPODROMES, and others handling large numbers of horses and other
stock, with complete success for over sixty years.
=II—You have a remedy for any particular Disease or Complaint. For
Colic=, or =Cough=, or =Founder=, or =Heaves=, or =Pneumonia=, or
=Indigestion=, or =Disease of the Kidneys=, or =Urinary Passages=,
=Strains=, or =Lameness=. You have it in =compact, portable form=. You
know just =what= to do, and =how= to do it.
=III—Their use is free from danger to the Animal.= In the usual
treatment, the medicines are either rank poisons or the most violent
alteratives. It is a common experience, that, if the horse finally lives
through the treatment he is worthless from the effects of the medicines.
Thousands of good horses are every year killed by drugs. In HUMPHREYS’
REMEDY system you are absolutely free _from all such danger_.
=IV—They are simple. Being Remedies for particular diseases= you know at
once what to give. You can scarcely make a mistake. Even if you do, you
have only lost your time, and have not killed the animal. When using the
common veterinary drugs, a mistake is often fatal.
=V—They are readily and easily given.= You need not lose a moment. The
REMEDY is ready just as you want it. With the Medicator you take the
dose from the bottle and place it upon the tongue of the animal, without
loss of time or danger. No bottling, balling, choking, or
strangling—irritating the animal and endangering the owner or his help.
=VI—They act more quickly than any other Medicine.= HUMPHREYS’ REMEDIES
act through the medium of the nerves and the blood, rather than through
the digestive organs. They begin to act before other medicines even
reach the stomach.
=VII—Every Ten Dollars invested in Humphreys’ Veterinary Remedies= will
save you $100.00 and every HUNDRED will save a THOUSAND IN PROPERTY,
besides an equal amount in time, trouble and care.
=VIII—The saving in loss of stock is from one-half to three-fourths.=
This is the testimony of hundreds of horsemen.
=IX=—THE TREATMENT is humane, and if we may be humane as well as
skillful, surely we should prefer it.
=X—Diagnosing the disease and giving of medicine is= such, as any
sensible, faithful man of ordinary intelligence can master without
difficulty.
We could annex Ten Thousand Testimonials of their efficacy.
CAUTION
☞Take care not to confound DR. F. HUMPHREYS’ VETERINARY REMEDIES with
the _spawn of imitations_ which the wonderful success of his REMEDIES
has warmed into existence. Imitators have taken _his labels_, _his
doses_ and _directions_, and even _his name_, under which to impose
their IMITATIONS upon the public. Care should be exercised to avoid
impositions. Several parties have reported the _loss of valuable stock_
through the use of these imitations.
Doses, How Much?
It is an error to suppose that animals require very large doses of
Humphreys’ Homeopathic Medicines, for experience has shown sick animals
to be very impressible, and easily influenced by appropriate medicine,
and in general, not to require as frequent repetitions as the human
subject. Those who are accustomed to give large and powerful doses of
poisonous medicines in order to produce some revulsive action, such as a
cathartic or sudorific, or even as an alterative, can not from hence
infer the proper quantity required when only a curative result is
desired.
Only experience, hence, can answer the question, How much? And
experience has amply shown that for horses ten to fifteen drops is the
range of doses best adapted in ordinary cases, and that while cattle and
hogs require rather more, sheep and dogs require less than the doses
mentioned. We have indicated in each disease the dose supposed to be
best for that particular case, yet to give two or five drops more in any
given case would probably not be hurtful, while to give a few drops less
would not endanger the curative action for want of the requisite
quantity. The truth is that precision in quantity is not indispensable
to a cure. The doses indicated we think are best, but a deviation from
them is by no means fatal. One physician gives much more and another
many times less, and both are successful. Medicine gives a curative
impulse often as well or better with five or ten drops as with more.
Besides, in giving medicines to animals, from their restlessness,
dodging the head, and other similar disturbing circumstances we can not,
and happily need not, be very positive. Give doses as near directions,
as you may be able, and the result will be satisfactory. The best and
safest rule is always to follow directions given in book, chart, and on
bottles. It is unsafe for you to assume that you know more than the man
who made the medicine and has had many years experience and observation
in using them. Young animals require but half as much as grown ones.
Repetitions—How often?
The effects of Humphreys’ Homeopathic Remedies are very prompt and
positive. Often immediate, in cases of colic or other forms of
neuralgia, as the medicine acts at once through the medium of the
nervous system. In other acute cases, such as inflammations, the effect
is equally as prompt but not so openly manifest. The medicine placed in
contact with the nervous papilla of the tongue is at once by means of
this connection conveyed over the entire system, while the stomach being
a secreting rather than an absorbing surface, repels rather than absorbs
a medicinal influence, so that medicines act better for being placed on
the tongue than when they are introduced into the stomach.
_The time to repeat is when the good effect has terminated._ All rules
of repetition are based upon this axiom. Thus, in colic and inflammation
of the bowels, we repeat every fifteen, thirty or sixty minutes. In
inflammation of the lungs, or chest, head, or other noble organ, or in
pneumonia or similar acute diseases, we repeat once in two, three or
four hours. In the yet less severe forms of disease, such as Fevers,
Founder, Strangles, Distemper, Lameness, or similar diseases, a dose
once in four hours, or four times per day, is quite sufficient. While in
Coughs, Heaves, Ulcers, Eruptions, and similar affections, if recent, a
dose morning and night is ample. In old chronic affections, a dose every
day, is better than more frequent repetitions. In most cases these
Remedies continue to act for weeks after having been given if
undisturbed by the use of other medicines.
Alternation of Remedies
In general but one medicine is required for a disease, and it may be
repeated from time to time. But cases are often met with where two
Remedies are indicated at the same time, one to meet one phase of the
disease, and a different Remedy to meet another. In all such cases the
two medicines are given _alternately_. Thus give a dose of one Remedy
and then, after the proper interval give the other Remedy, and thus
continue the two _alternately_, at such intervals as the directions
demand. Nor should we be deterred from the use of a remedy in a
particular case, because the name given it indicates a different use,
for a medicine may be curative for a particular disease, and equally so
for a different or even seemingly opposite one.
How to Choose the Remedy
In the use of my Homeopathic Remedies nothing can be more simple than
the choice of the Remedy, while in attempting to use the ordinary
Homeopathic preparations, the choice of the remedy is very difficult and
intricate. From an examination of the animal you will have some idea of
the nature of its disease, and will at once turn to the Index and page
in the Manual describing that and similar diseases. Continue the search
until the true description is found, and the proper treatment pointed
out. _If in doubt_ as to the particular remedy always give A.A. It
rarely fails to help, and prepares the way for other remedies when they
are required and gives you time to think and observe. Many good
practitioners always give A.A. first. It is not necessary that all the
symptoms given should be present, as the Remedy in all cases has a wider
range of action than the disease.
If a sufficient length of time has passed to clearly show that no good
has resulted, the case should be looked over again, and a more
appropriate Remedy selected.
How to give the Remedy
Not among the least recommendations for the use of my Homeopathic
Remedies, is the ease and facility with which they may be administered.
No tying, struggling, or choking are necessary. The animal should be
approached quietly, usually on the OFF SIDE if the Medicator is to be
used, and medicine placed, if possible, upon the tongue, well
back—thence it is absorbed, and acts at once through the medium of the
nervous system. The simplest medium of doing this is best. For this
purpose the use of the Medicator is best—a small glass instrument
invented by me. It is about five inches in length, made of firm, heavy
glass tubing (_see 4th cover page_), the lower third bent so as to
readily enter the lips. The upper end is funnel-shaped the size of the
end of the finger, and covered with an air-tight rubber cap, so as to
form an air receiver. The Medicator, taken in the right hand, with the
forefinger upon the top or rubber valve, is introduced into the proper
vial, and pressing slightly upon the valve the air is exhausted, and on
removing the finger the fluid is forced up into the tube sufficient for
a dose. A little experience will enable one to take up five, ten or more
drops as may be required. The Medicator thus charged with the dose, can,
at the convenient moment, be inserted just within the lips of the
animal’s mouth, the farther back upon the tongue the better, when a
slight pressure upon the top of tube injects contents, and medicine is
given.
THE MEDICATOR should be held upright; never turned down or held
horizontally; as the air is thus introduced and the medicine may drop
out. Held upright until it is quietly inserted between the lips of the
animal, no such difficulty occurs. Nor is it necessary to push the tube
far enough into the mouth to expose it to the danger of being broken or
crushed between the teeth. The moment fluid from tube comes upon the
tongue the animal will open its mouth, and in an instant the medicine is
injected upon the tongue or in the mouth, and the operation is finished.
In other cases the tongue may be gently hooked out of the mouth with the
finger, and the medicine may be dropped or turned upon it. Horses are
fond of sugar, and the medicine may be dropped upon a small lump, and
fed from hand. After a few times they will call for their sugar when the
owner comes into the stable, at the proper time. With cattle or sheep,
raise the head a little and inject the medicine with the medicator, or
pull the tongue out on one side, and drop or eject the medicine upon it.
Hogs usually, when sick, lie quietly upon the side, and medicine may
hence be injected into the mouth with Medicator, or be given in a
spoonful of sweet milk, poured in between the jaws, or given them to
drink. Care must be taken in giving fluid to hogs, not to forcibly raise
the head, as they are easily strangled—even to death. Dogs may have the
medicine in a little sweet milk, or it may be even turned in through the
nose. Yet the Medicator is an improvement upon all these plans, as it
takes up and discharges the proper dose at once.
N. B.—Take off the rubber cap, and cleanse the Medicator when using it
for different medicines.
Housing and Care of Sick Animals
When an animal shows signs of illness, it should be immediately cared
for. The horse, unless in cases of very slight Colic, or other ailment,
when the medicine be given at once, and his work continued, should be
placed in a roomy, convenient and warm stall, well littered, with plenty
of dry bedding, and well blanketed, unless in very warm weather. Cattle,
Sheep and Hogs, as soon as it is noticed that they are sick, should be
separated from the herd or flock, and placed in comfortable, well
littered and especially dry apartments. This is necessary not only to
prevent disease spreading to other stock on the farm, but for the
convenience of nursing them, giving them medicines, and also to place
them in the very best position for a cure. Often a little timely care
and nursing will save and restore an animal, which, if permitted to run
with the stock, and take its chance, would unquestionably be lost. A
sick animal as truly needs attention as a sick child. Not always will
mere nursing restore a sick animal, but it always places it in the best
possible condition to effect a cure, and without it the best medical
treatment will often be fruitless.
Diet of Sick Animals
In general, when animals are seriously ill, they are without appetite,
and will take little or no food—nature thus indicating the propriety of
abstinence. But in all cases the food given or allowed should be quite
limited in quantity—one-half, one-third or fourth of the usual quantity,
and only that which is nourishing, easily digested, and generally
relaxing. With these general restrictions, the usual kinds of food may
be permitted, except in the case of dogs, where _only stale bread and
milk_ should be allowed in urgent cases, and but little or no meat, and
no salted or spiced food in any case. After the more urgent symptoms of
disease have passed over, and the animal is recovering, we should be
careful and not give full feed, as a relapse may thus easily be
provoked, and prove very stubborn and dangerous.
At least half an hour or an hour should intervene after taking a dose of
medicine before the animal should be fed as the system is more
susceptible then than at any other time.
To evacuate the bowels—injections of water, soap and water, or salt and
water are always allowable, and may often be used with great benefit.
They are usually administered without difficulty, in no case injurious,
and should one fail to produce an evacuation, another or more may be
repeated, until the result is accomplished.
How to Feel the Pulse
In the horse, this is best done by placing the finger on the artery,
where it passes over the lower jaw, about four inches below its angle.
Place the forefinger on the side of the lower jaw at its angle, and
trace the jaw along gently towards the mouth. Some four inches below the
angle a notch will be found, in which the artery passes over the jaw,
and the throbbing of the pulse will be readily felt. Some attention may
be required as the pulse beats in health slowly, and often apparently
indistinctly.
The pulse makes in the healthy horse from thirty-six to forty-two beats
per minute; in spirited lighter horses the latter, and in heavy older
horses the former. When the pulse reaches fifty to fifty-five, there is
some degree of fever. Seventy-five will indicate a dangerous condition,
and few horses will long survive a pulse of one hundred. Care should be
taken not to excite an animal before or while examining the pulse, as it
may thus readily be increased ten or fifteen beats to the minute, and
mislead as to the true condition.
In cattle the temple is the best place to feel the pulse and usually
runs forty-five to fifty beats per minute.
In sheep and hogs the femoral artery which extends across the inside of
the thigh is most easily felt. This should run seventy to eighty for
both sheep and hogs.
In dogs the pulse may be felt by placing two fingers on the inner side
of the knee. Dogs run from 90 to 100 per minute.
The heart usually beats four or five times to each breath the animal
takes (when in condition of rest). There is also a variation in normal
temperature according to the animal as follows:
ANIMAL NORMAL RESPIRATION NORMAL TEMPERATURE
Horse 8 to 10 per minute 100.4 to 100.8 F
Cattle 12 to 15 per minute 101.8 to 102 F
Sheep, Goats 12 to 20 per minute 103.6 to 104.4 F
Hogs 10 to 15 per minute 103.3 average F
Dogs 15 to 20 per minute 100.9 to 101.7 F
As this Veterinary Manual may fall into the hands of some who are not
acquainted with its use, a few practical hints may be of service.
=1st. Follow the directions.=—Read and learn what the disease or
condition is.—Then give the remedy _in the doses_, and _at the intervals
directed_, as near as may be. Don’t think you know more about the doses
or _how much_ to give, or how often to give it, than the man who
originated the system and wrote the book, and whose rules and
observations are the result of very large experience.
=2d. Don’t mix the Remedies= with other medicines. They won’t act if you
mix them up with other things; or bring the patient under the influence
of other drugs, however harmless you may suppose them to be. The sure
way of safety and success, is to _trust_ to the _Remedies alone_. You
will not improve the case by resorting to other medicines or other
measures. If the patient does not improve as rapidly as you desire, a
little rest will do no harm, and the kindly reaction may come on later.
=3d. Don’t be in to great haste.=—Medicines must have time to act and
time to cure. In some cases, such as colics, neuralgias or nervous
pains, the evidence of good action is prompt—almost immediately. In
other slower, less pronounced, not so decided.
When you see the patient relieved.—_less pain_,—_more quiet_,—_more
natural_,—_easier_, then you know that the remedy is _acting
curatively_, and _don’t interfere with it_, by giving new doses or other
remedies or medicines. Simply _let the remedy act_. _Hurrying does not
hurry the cure._ When a good action has begun it will continue faster
when quietly permitted to expend its action, than if doses are
multiplied upon it. The time to repeat the dose is when the action of
the former has ceased or begun to decline. The patient is in more danger
from your doing too much, than too little, after a good action has been
set up.
=4th.= Disease of the bones, joints and ligaments, only get well slowly.
So of old chronic affections—such as “Spavin,” “Founder,” “Ringbone,”
“Wind galls,” “Warts,” or other blemishes. A new action has to be set up
in the implicated part, often a process of absorption and of reformation
of tissue, and _time_ must be allowed for these changes, through which
only a cure can be made. Sometimes a good reaction is only produced
after some days or even weeks use of the remedy. Such is nature’s way of
cure and you cannot hasten it. So your true interest and true philosophy
is, act _patiently_, _perseveringly_, if you would act _successfully_.
=5th. The action of Humphreys’ Remedies continues a long time.=
PART I.
Diseases of Horses