PREFACE- 



known. It is something to bo 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 hu- 

 man 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. Ignorance and cruelty seem to have con- 

 trolled this branch of medicine not that men are 

 of necessity careless in regard to the lives of their 

 animals, or designedly 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 method of cure, 

 that fatality and the most absurd and cruel meas- 

 ures almost of necessity prevail. Some judicious 

 stock owners, taught by experience the fatality of 

 the common methods of treatment, notwithstand- 

 ing the torture and expense, have more humanely, 

 if not more wisely, abandoned all treatment, pre- 

 ferring to let nature contend with disease alone, 

 rather than with disease and drugs united. But, 

 thanks to Homeopathy, there is a better way. 



For many years past, Homoeopathy has been 

 applied to the diseases of all domestic animals in 



