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others are but man's experiments, ever shifting and 

 changing ; taken up as wonders and then dropped as 

 useless. Pleuro-pneumonia in cattle is pronounced in- 

 curable by the dominant school, and the government 

 orders all the afflicted animals to be slaughtered, yet 

 homosopathy could save nearly every case, as has been 

 repeatedly demonstrated. Homoeopaths have secured 

 many a fine bargain in horses, buying an animal, pro- 

 nounced incurable by some old school veterinarian, and 

 curing him. The large horse-car companies in almost 

 every city have adopted homoeopathic treatment. 



We will close this branch of our subject by giving 

 the statistics of an epidemic of comparatively recent 

 date, to illustrate the differences between the two schools. 

 During the epidemic of yellow fever in the southern 

 States in 1878, the allopaths treated 96,187 cases, of 

 which 12,296 died ; a death rate of 23.5. At the same 

 time the homoeopathic practitioners treated 3914 cases 

 of the same disease, of which 261 died ; a death rate of 

 6.6. In many of the southern States, by means of 

 unjust medical legislation, the allopaths have obtained 

 sole control, and they refuse to permit homoeopaths to 

 practice. This accounts for the great disparity in the 

 numbers treated. 



Medical legislation is a subject of vital importance to 



