This section is from the book "The Diseases Of Dogs, And Their Homeopathic Treatment", by James Moore. Also available from Amazon: Homeopathic Care for Cats and Dogs.
The particulars of this interesting case are taken from the "Abstract of the Proceedings of the Veterinary Medical Association, for 1838-9."
"Mr Ainslie laid before the Association a singular specimen of inversion of the stomach in a dog.
The patient was three or four years old. He had for several months been subject to occasional vomiting, but this had of late become more frequent. He (Mr A.) attributed it to the treatment of the animal when under distemper. The disease had assumed its severest form, and large doses of calomel had been administered. From that time he had had fits of vomiting - sometimes without any evident cause - and generally after a hearty meal - and always if he took exercise after a meal. There was also, to the great annoyance of the owner, a continual discharge of viscid saliva from the corners of the mouth, and more or less blood accompanied every act of vomiting. The owner did not seem to suspect the real origin of this nuisance.
"On the first of the month he appeared to be as well as usual. In the evening he cleanly picked a bone for his supper, and after that came a fit of vomiting. He lay quiet during the night, and in the morning began to vomit mucus mixed with blood. This continued during the day; the dog rapidly lost strength, and died in the evening. The blood retained its fluid state, mixed with mucus and saliva. When, on the following morning, he opened the dog, and began to feel for the stomach, no viscus of that kind was to be found in the abdomen. He then opened the thorax, and there he perceived a considerable enlargement of the oesophagus. At first sight, it seemed to be a tumour attached to the parietes of that tube; but on closer examination, the oesophagus was evidently dilated by some large soft body within it. He cut into it, and he drew from it the stomach, inverted, and its mucous coat in the highest possible state of inflammation. The whole of the villous tunic was charged with congested blood. The dilatation of the oesophagus commenced even from the pharynx, and had, probably, existed for a considerable time. The food, or some portion of it, probably remained in this dilated portion of the oesophagus, and slowly passed into the stomach, and that might account for the frequent vomitings an hour or two after feeding, especially if the dog had taken any exercise."
Can there be any doubt but that the calomel was the cause of all this?
 
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