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etc., and adds that all treatment appears futile. Now the 

 woplI "appears," in this case, implies a doubt. Scientific 

 men should be more emphatic and particular in the words 

 used. If there is any one remedy to be avoided in this 

 disease of cattle, it is purging or physicking. Will a dose 

 of physic cure blood poison, build up the system, and arrest 

 typhus ? The person who says so is certainly not fit to 

 give an opinion on this particular subject. Out of many 

 evils, choose that which is the least; that is, restore the 

 digestive functions with carminatives and tonics, and not 

 physic; remove the cause of the derangement, and the 

 effects will cease — but do not take the bull by the horns, 

 or beard the lion in his den. A Mr. Dobson devotes 

 nearly ten pages to the subject, and winds up with the 

 following words : " We trust we have said enough to give 

 our readers a fair idea of the nature and consequence of the 

 Rinderpest." Mr. Dobson has not, as he seems to think, 

 given either the true nature or pathology of the disease; 

 and has not gone so far as Mr. Gamgee, for he has not 

 even so much as hinted that there is a dose of physic in 

 existence. His article, however, has proved one thing, 

 and that is, that a man can write much about what he 

 really does not understand. The treatment, according to 

 Mr. Moore, the veterinary homceopathist, is nearer the right 

 kind than any English author I have heard of; but 

 Mr. Moore, to be successful, will have to throw his infin- 

 itesimak to the dogs, and increase his doses. There are 

 other authors of less note, but all follow in one beaten 

 track, from which there seems to be no variableness nor 

 shadow of turning. The minds of Englishmen all follow 

 in one direct line of march, and will continue to do so with 

 a bewitchment similar to that which shut out the truth 

 from the foolish Gralatians. 



