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tain drugs, as curative in this distemper; and to the second 

 branch of this review, that of the treatment pursued by the 

 school, whose fundamental axiom is ** similia similihus curan- 



The Homoeopathic school has not been without ardent 

 advocates, lay as well as professional, for its superior effi- 

 ciency in the handling of the Pest. Its doctrines and method 

 of cure, though hotly contested and decried when first 

 announced, as bald quackery, have by undeniable success in 

 a vast number of cures in the human subject, gained for it 

 high commendation among the common people, and by 

 gradual advances have extorted from opposing schools this 

 high commendation, — that they have moderated the heroic 

 treatment formerly in vogue. The •' infinitesimal doses," 

 derided as addressed only to the imagination, or only suited 

 to ailments where "bread pills" would have been equally 

 available, were gladly tried by Eussian serfdom, during the 

 terrible scourge of cholera which visited Eastern Europe in 

 1830 ; and we may add, approved by and through them, as 

 the reports made to Admiral Mordinow, and since published 

 by him, of large percentages of cure, sufficiently attest. The 

 superior efficacy of the Homoiopathic treatment of cholera to 

 that relied upon by its opponents, was further demonstrated 

 in the public contest instituted under the auspices of the 

 Austrian Cabinet at Vienna. And since that day its marked 

 success with many people in different climes, and in all the 

 varieties of disease " which flesh is heir to," has given the 

 system a popular acceptation, against which it is in vain for 

 prejudice or self-interest to contend. Its doctrines have 

 withal been accepted by experts whose scientific attainments 

 and high probity place them above the suspicion of sciolism 

 and imposture. And while deprecating the absurdities to 

 which many have practically carried its teachings, it is yet 

 to be urged in the behalf of pure science, which holds all 

 medical systems as at present in a tentative posture, that no 

 hindrance should be interposed by the dogmatists of any 

 school to the establishment and acceptance of facts of cure 

 in any disease by any method ; to the end that these may 



