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peculiar habits and susceptibilities, the same 

 remedies that have been so efficient in mitigating 

 and curing the diseases of men, women and chil- 

 dren, have been found equally successful in arrest- 

 ing the diseases to which all classes of domestic 

 animals are liable. The contrast is even greater. 

 Probably from the fact that the treatment of sick 

 animals has been but little understood, and in- 

 trusted to the hands mainly of ignorant persons, 

 who have pursued the most crude, cruel and des- 

 tructive measures, often for more dangerous and 

 life-destroying than the disease itself, a large pro- 

 portion of the sick have died or been tortured to 

 death. But when the same diseases are subjected 

 to the mild and benign influence of intelligent 

 Homcepathic treatment, it is found that almost 

 every disease among them is within its control, 

 even the most fatal yielding to its magic influences. 



Although at first sight it may seem strange, 

 that animals should be successfully treated by the 

 mild and apparently insignificant doses of Homoe- 

 opathy, yet a moment's reflection will suffice to 

 give many reasons why this should be so. Even 

 were it not susceptible of explanation, experience 

 has abundantly demonstrated the fact that, ani- 

 mals are, if possible, even more susceptible to 

 Homoepathic treatment than men, and its success 

 in their case is even more striking and brilliant. 



This may be, perhaps, attributed to their more 

 regular habits, confinement to the same food and 

 driniv, absence of excitement, and freedom from 

 the many articles of food and drink in use among 

 the human species, which are all more or less 

 medicinal. 



Owing to these circumstances, animals are very 

 impressible, and the doses for them need not be 

 much larger than for the human species. It 



