Cats: Homeopathic Remedies

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Cats: Homeopathic Remedies, by world-renowned veterinarian and author George Macleod, offers detailed advice for that special member of the household - your cat.

Formatted for easy reference, covering most of the conditions that can be safely treated homeopathically, this book may help your pet live a long and healthy life. Chapter by chapter MacLeod goes through the various organ systems, their related disorders and their appropriate homoeopathic treatment.

A remedy differential is given for each, with specifics on how to choose among similar remedies. The materia medica section includes more than 200 medicines with their indications.

Some of the included topics are:

Nosodes and Oral Vaccines
Diseases of the Blood and Blood Forming Organs
Allergic Conditions
Miliary Eczema and Alopecia
Wounds and Injuries
Parasites
Vaccination Procedure

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Author

George Macleod, a graduate of Glasgow University, was one of the world's foremost authorities on the homeopathic treatment of animals. He was one of the few veterinary surgeons to use homeopathic medicines wholly and exclusively.

After working for the British Government during World War II, he set up practice in Dornoch, Sutherland before moving to a practice in Haywards, Heath, Sussex England.

For nearly 50 years George Macleod treated all types of animals, from thoroughbred racehorses and pedigree cattle to household pets, with great success - and often where other forms of treatment failed.

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Reviews

From the
SOCIETY OF HOMEOPATHS
Reviewed by Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson RSHom, lives with Mereline, four dogs, assorted cats, some computers, and a busy practice, in Northampton.

Many of you will know that Mereline, my partner and I are very committed to animal welfare and have wide experience of using homoeopathic remedies in the treatment of small animals especially cats and dogs.

George MacLeod MRCVS, DVCSM, is one of the UK's homoeopathic stalwarts and was for many years one of the few vets with very much experience of homoeopathy. In earlier years I recall vividly many telephone conversations that I have had with George asking his advice for particular animals ill at the time.

He was not a young man then and with all the phone calls that we had he never seemed hurried or rushed, and was always very helpful in his typically dour Scottish manner.

Now there are quite a few books around on veterinary homoeopathy but ten years ago there was only Kay Sheppard's two books on dogs and cats, rather slim volumes, but it was all there was and they were surprisingly useful.

Indeed I recall that if you were looking for something about a cat and it wasn't in the cat book you could often find it in the dog book instead; I think it was because the book on dogs was published a little later and has a few extra pages.

George MacLeod has already published books on the homoeopathic treatment of horses and cattle and I might mention he had previously given a long paper on the homoeopathic treatment of goats, in the VH Journal. I mention that because George is very popular and well respected in the homoeopathic goat keeping world.

I have been fortunate to listen to George MacLeod speak on a couple of occasions and I can tell you he is usually at his best when answering questions, his experience and particularly interesting anecdote begin to sparkle.

Dogs: Homoeopathic Remedies was previously published as the Homoeopathic Treatment of Dogs by the Homoeopathic Development Foundation, and the new volume is virtually the same although I have not compared them word for word.

It will help you to understand the arrangement of style of the book if you know something about the way George MacLeod prescribed. He is a great fan of Hughes and so tends to rely more on physical symptoms rather than psychological ones.

The two books are very similar in their arrangement in that they take the various differences of the digestive system, respiratory system, nervous system, urinary tract, muscular skeletal system etc, and the various diseases found under each section. The general comment about the condition its aetiology, clinical signs and treatment. Under cystitis for example there are twelve remedies with a few fines on the indication of each.

I found these are both very useful books for serious prescribing for cats and dogs, together with helpful information for those not trained in veterinary medicine. I would not recommend the two books as the first books to buy on veterinary homoeopathy, for that I would suggest The Homoeopathic Treatment of Small Animals: Principles and Practice by Christopher Day, also published by C.W.Daniel & Co. Ltd., at 8.95 pounds. This is a much more general book and could be recommended to patients whose hobby is to treat their animals with homoeopathic medicines.

George MacLeod's two books are not intended for beginners but they would be very useful for orthodox vets who are interested in using homoeopathy. A note of caution: although as homoeopaths we are allowed to treat two legged patients under common law, we arc not allowed to treat the four legged variety and especially I suggest that you do not charge fees for it.

These are useful additions to your library if you are at all involved in the treatment of cats and dogs as many of us are.

The Homoeopath Vol.11 No.4 1991
Reprinted with permission from the Society of Homeopaths

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Contents

Introduction -- 1
What is Homoeopathy? -- 1
Nature of Homoeopathic Remedies -- 2
Preparation of Remedies -- 2
Selection of Potencies -- 3
Administration of Remedies -- 3
Care of Remedies -- 4
Nosodes and Oral Vaccines -- 4-8
Homoeopathic Materia Medica -- 9-58

(I) Diseases of the Alimentary System -- 59-72
(II) Diseases of the Respiratory System -- 73-81
(III) Diseases of the Lungs and Pleura -- 82-86
(IV) Diseases of the Nervous System -- 87-92
(V) Diseases of the Cardio-Vascular System -- 93-94
(VI) Diseases of the Urinary Tract -- 95-105
(VII) The Reproductive System -- 106-111
(VIII) Diseases of the Ear -- 112-116
(IX) Diseases of the Eye -- 117-123
(X) Diseases of the Blood and Blood Forming Organs -- 124-127
(XI) Allergic Conditions -- 128-130
(XII) Diseases of the Muscles -- 131-133
(XIII) Diseases of the Musculo-Skeletal System -- 134-138
(XIV) Miliary Eczema and Alopecia -- 139-141
(XV) Wounds and Injuries -- 142-143
(XVI) Parasites -- 144
(XVII) Vaccination Procedure -- 145-146
(XVIII) Specific Diseases -- 147-166

Index -- 167-176

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