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undergo the rigorous scrutiny which the inductive method 

 demands, and by which alone medical as well as other physi- 

 cal sciences are to be permanently advanced. And this 

 claim we may the more freely advocate, and with the high 

 certainty that such advocacy will be sustained and shared in 

 by all generous spirits who seek to pursue humane ends by 

 scientific means ; as the sequel will show, that we propose no 

 blind adhesion to any system, and as the transition period, in 

 which all present systems of medicine now stand, indicates a 

 new and a higher eclecticism based upon a more perfect 

 classification of disease, and a more thorough demonstration 

 of the agencies which afford the most prompt and certain, if 

 not specific relief. 



Attention was first attracted in Great Britain to the suc- 

 cessful cure of the Einderpest by Homoiopathic remedies, 

 through the Eeport made on the Cattle Plague in Belgium, 

 by M. Barron, Her Majesty's Secretarj^ of Legation at Brus- 

 sels, to Lord Howard de Walden. In this Eeport, after a 

 review of the recent outbreak in Belgium (not theretofore 

 visited by this scourge since 1814), and which, principally 

 from the vigorous system of quarantine noticed in our first 

 Eeport, was ^ comparatively light, the successful cures of 

 Messrs. Seutin and Gaudy in Holland were brought to the 

 notice of the English Government, with a strong recommen- 

 dation that these gentlemen, one a chemist and the other an 

 Ex-Professor in a Veterinary College, should be permitted to 

 verify their practice in England. Despite the alleged malevo- 

 lence of the Dutch Veterinary Corps, the carelessness of the 

 farmers whose cattle were under treatment, and the absence 

 of proper assistance, a large per centage (from 70 to 80) of cures 

 was gained ; the results of the practice being officially cer- 

 tified in one commune, that of Mathenesse, as of forty-six 

 cures in sixty-three cases. The proposition of these experts 

 being based on an indemnity moderate in amount, to cover 

 expenses and remuneration, was not accepted by the British 

 Government, and no opportunity was afforded for a direct 

 inspection and test of the practice. But as appears from an 

 address of Lord Bury, Treasurer of the Household, &c., before 



