PREFACE. 



THE world owes much to Homoeopathy 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. Igno- 

 rance 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 meth- 



