Vlll INTRODUCTION. 



tiou arises when j^ou examine the plan allopathists adopt of 

 treating diseases from knowledge gained through the study of 

 pathology, which is the science that deals with the changes that 

 go on in the various organs of the body, and the tissue or 

 material of which those organs consist; for instance, consider what 

 changes take place under certain conditions in the liver and the 

 lungs; without any scientific knowledge, any man who has been 

 in a Knacker's yard and seen these organs exposed to view could 

 easily tell that very considerable changes had taken place in the 

 tissue if only guided by the color and texture of these organs 

 when diseased as compared with those recognized as in a healthy 

 or normal condition; well! how can a contrary or opposite in the 

 form of a drug be found to these diseased conditions? Knowledge, 

 such as allopathists have, can only be obtained by experimenting 

 on patients, and this many of them not only admit, but boast is 

 their method of prescribing; experience and experiment are very 

 forcible and effective words and sound well to the mind not 

 specially trained in medicine, but they may be badly applied, and 

 mislead the unwary, and so they have done, and still are doing; but 

 it is the duty and the privilege of those who have studied the prin- 

 ciples of Homoeopathy to show to all intelligent people who are 

 willing to learn, that there is a rule or guiding principle, based on 

 scientific principles, as unerring in its application tis any of the 

 great and acknowledged laws of nature by which the Veterinarian 

 and medical man may determine what drug to administer in the 

 thousand and one ailments to which man and beast are dail}' fall- 

 ing victims; to the practical layman, who looks at the matter 

 from a common sense p^int of view, and whose mind is not 

 biased by any old traditions, the system, which can give a well- 

 defined reason for its regular course of action, must assuredly 

 commend itself. Now, for the better understanding of the 

 matter let us a.sk the question "What is Homeopathy? " Many 

 persons are under the impression that this word is associated only 

 with the administration of small, and in some cases infinitesimal, 

 doses; that the drugs are generally prepared in the form of 

 globules or pilules and are devoid of nauseous taste; but it must 

 plea.se be distinctly understood that the.se are erroneous con- 

 ceptions of the meaning of Homoeopathy; there is not a vestige 

 of truth in the idea, and the reason why it became so prevalent 



