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on much more slender charges than could be brought against 

 some medical men who have allowed cases of glanders in the 

 human subject infected by glandered horses to die because know- 

 ing of no cure in orthodox practice they would not seek a cure 

 from the despised (?) Hahnemannians. 



We have already affirmed that by means of homoeopathic treat- 

 ment glanders may be cured; one of the agents used isglandermum, 

 which like Mallein, is the attenuated virus of the disease; such 

 remedies are described as uosodes, they have in this and other 

 diseases such as tuberculosis (tuberculin, the nosode,) proved 

 remarkably effective in bringing about cures when all other drugs 

 hav^e failed, and the administration of these has been extremely 

 disappointing; ghinderinum, however, is invariably reduced to a 

 much higher attenuation through the method of preparation 

 adopted by homoeopathic druggists than is Mallein, and we be- 

 lieve that to Dr. Swan, of New York, is due all the honor for 

 first bringing into prominent notice this and similar preparations; 

 hence the followers of Hahnemann who consider the administra- 

 tion of nosodes to be strictly within the homoeopathic law can 

 claim to have recognized the value of the principle involved in 

 the use of such agents long before the discoverer of Mallein, long 

 before Professor Kock with his much vaunted tuberculin; long 

 before Pasteur with his anthrax protective inoculations; this is a 

 very interesting fact and not less true than interesting, because it 

 serves to show how much the houioeopathist is in advance of the 

 allopathist in everything that appertains to scientific research. 

 Glanderinum is most probably quite as effective in curing glanders 

 as jSIallein is in detecting the presence of the disease; but the 

 question at once arises, why does not ^Mallein cure sometimes ? 

 To this question we reply by giving in extetiso an article from the 

 ''Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics,''' of June, 

 1893, edited by Professor McFadyean of the London Veterinary 

 College, from which it appears that under given conditions it*does 

 cure; the article is a reprint from " Berliner Thierixrztliche Woch- 

 enschrijt;' and is headed "The Curative Effect of Mallein 

 IN Glanders." It then goes on to state that " In February last 

 Professor Pilavios, of Athens, sent to the French Academy of 

 Medicine a report regarding the use of Mallein in the treatment of 

 glanders. He has been pursuing his investigations since, and he 



