Homoeopathy for Dogs

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVII, Issue 6050, 14 April 1888, Page 3

Homoeopathy for Dogs

In a discussion on Homoeopathy _in the Times a pupil of Meissonier writes :— was studying painting a few years ago with Meissonier, whose valuable dog— which had been given to him by his great friend Dumas—was struck with paralysis in its hind quarters; it had also its neck twisted. I had long studied homcepathy for my own use, and my little globules were the subject of much good-humoured fun to Meissonier and his friends and family, who did. not believe in them at, all. The dog in question was condemned to death by a great vet in Paris, who attended to Meissonier's very valuable horses, as will be'seen in the enclosed The same evening I was dining with him and his family, and the dog was in the room —a subject of much lamentation-when in his sudden and animated manner, he challenged me to cure it;with "my homcepathy." I accepted the challenge, and gave the dog; at once in their presence a single dose of Rhus Tox. of a rather high dilution. The next morning I was at work with him alone in his garden studio before breakfast, when his clever and energetic daughter came rushing into the studio as if the house were ou fire, crying out that " the dog walked !" We ran out of the studio —Meissonier with his brush in his mouth and his large palette on his thumb, in his earnest eagerness about everything that freshly caught his attention—and there was the animal running about on its four legs as strongly as ever. It still had its neck twisted, however, I was much puzzled how to i proceed with my patient. I then perceived that its coat was rough and staring. Here came in one of ihe great principles of homoeopathy—that every sympton must be taken into account— and the proper remedy at once suggested itself. I gave it two doses of Arsenicum 3. X.; the dog quite recovered, and is, I believe, alive and well to this day.