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horse is allowed to mix with others, so long is it a source of risk 

 to the healthy, by reason of the virulent and infectious nature of 

 this disease; moreover while the disease is considered by the lead- 

 ing lights — to say nothing of the rank and file — of the profession 

 to be incurable, and therefore no efforts are made to effect cures, 

 it would seem as though no other course but the stamping out 

 process is available in countries where these views prevail. Never- 

 theless while it may seem extremely presumptions for one indi- 

 vidual to firmly adhere to views diametrically opposed to those 

 held by an overwhelming majority of a learned profession, we 

 venture to assert that in our opinion glanders and farcy are cap- 

 able of being cured just like any other disease, and we can dis- 

 cover no valid reason why glanders should be an exception to the 

 general rule; moreover we have good and sound reasons for 

 believing that cases of glanders have been repeatedly cured; and 

 by this we do not mean apparoitly cured, as may sometimes appear 

 to be the case in consequence of the healing of the ulcers and sores 

 on the nasal membrane, leaving a cicatrix behind as evidence of 

 the same, while at the same time the virus of the disease remained 

 in the system, and the horse was as much a medium for the spread 

 of infection as ever he was; we mean an absohite cure, the virus of 

 the disease to all intents and purposes dead and positively inactive, 

 in which the capacity for infection no longer exists, the living 

 organisms (bacteria) starved and incapable of carr}-iug on their 

 direful effects upon the horse's constitution; all this we confidently 

 assert may be effected, the whole allopathic profession notwith- 

 standing, by means of properly selected homoeopathic remedies; 

 and in passing we venture to allude to what we believe to be the 

 terrible moral responsibility which rests upon the medical profes- 

 sion for ignoring homoeopathic practice, as a sort of forlorn hope 

 if for nothing else, in cases of this dire disease on the human sub- 

 ject; certainly no harm could come of a trial with a homoeopathi- 

 cally selected drug in a disease which is generalh- admitted to be 

 absolutely incurable by orthodox practitioners; without doubt 

 orthodox practice is impotentl}- helpless in combatting glanders, 

 but that is no reason wh}" men should be allowed to die, when 

 successful treatment is available and within the ' ' ken ' ' of any 

 practitioner who will condescend to seek after it; we have no hesi- 

 tation in averring that many men have been convicted of murder 



