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the General Committee of the Norfolk Cattle Plague Insur- 

 ance Association, the friends of Homoeopathy, requested Dr. 

 Hamilton to go to Holland to investigate and report upon 

 the treatment pursued by both schools. The Doctor was fur- 

 nished with suitable credentials from Earl Eussell to that Gov- 

 ernment. He found the Allopathic practice mostly confined 

 to the use of dilute muriatic acid (in doses of one or one and a 

 half drachms), combined in linseed tea, given four or five times 

 a day, sometimes with gentian, tormentilla, and ginger ; occas- 

 ionally recourse was had to dilute sulphuric acid combined 

 with sulphate of quinine in equal parts. By the use of these 

 remedies, and with the external use of carbolic acid in propor- 

 tion of eighteen drachms of the acid to forty quarts of water, 

 or of vinegar and tepid water, used four or five times a day, 

 there had been a saving of 45 per cent. The Homoeopathic 

 treatment at Matterness, within a mile of Kethel, in the very 

 center of what had become to be styled the " black district," 

 as reported by Dr. Hamilton, is also given by his Lordship, 

 coupled with the allegation that the Eoyal Commission had 

 refused to examine the Doctor as a witness, and the assertion 

 of the consequent duty incumbent on the orator in common 

 with every individual, to give as much publicity as possible 

 to this fact. 



The Homoeopaths commenced their method of treatment 

 on the 22d day of September, 1865, when eighty beasts sick 

 with Einderpest, as first vouched for by the certificate of 

 veterinary surgeons, were put under their care; of which 

 number sixty recovered. Besides these, two hundred and 

 thirty beasts were put under Homoeopathic prophylactic 

 treatment, twenty-five showing the outbreak of the distem- 

 per before the preventive treatment had time to work ; but 

 up to the fourth week no other case had occurred, and on the 

 21st day of October, the commune was pronounced free from 

 disease ; the remedies employed being Arsenicum, Phospho- 

 rusj Phosphoric Acid, Bhus Toxicodendron and Sulphur. 



Another able exposition of this method of treatment is 

 given by Dr. Pope,* from whose well digested review of the 



* Soo Monthly Homoeopath Reyiew, Feb. 1806. 



