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cart-horse.” The medical principles it professes to be the 
“ faithful advocate” of, are the physiopathic , as will appear 
from the following address upon its wrapper': — 
“ This journal will be a faithful advocate for the principles 
now taught in the Physiopathic Medical College of Ohio. We 
shall labour to shew that these principles are adapted to the 
successful practice of the veterinary art, and that, whether we 
prescribe for a man or a horse, our agents must be given with 
a view of aiding the vital powers. 
“ The principles are, — 
“ 1. We contemplate the animal system as a perfect piece 
of mechanism, subject to the immutable and uncompromising 
laws of nature ; that, while the vital power is free and unob- 
structed, the animal is in a physiological or healthy state ; but 
when by any means the vital power is embarrassed, such animal 
is in a diseased or pathological state. 
“ 2. That all vital manifestations are physiological ; that 
disease is never the result of its action, but results from de- 
fective or perverted action in the various subordinate forces 
which the vital principle employs in the performance of its 
numberless labours. 
“ 3. No matter what the nature of the disease may be, our 
intentions of cure are founded upon the proposition of promoting 
the vital integrity, — the living powers. 
“ 4. Blood-letting, or poisonous substances, which contem- 
plate organic destruction, or even an interruption of the normal 
vital functions, cannot be admitted into our collection of remedial 
agents. 
“ 5. The diseased state being an embarrassed condition of 
the physiological, we endeavour to restore the harmony by the 
use of agents that are known to be innocent and sanative. 
Such, for example, as are compounded in the forest and the 
field by the Great Physician ; and such only as experience 
teaches us co-operate with Nature and with Nature’s laws. 
" Lastly, our physiological system of medication proposes to 
restore the diseased organ or organism to its healthy state by 
co-operating with the vitality remaining in the organ or organism 
by the exhibition of sanative means. Our materia medica is 
full and replete with agents whose action upon the animal 
system is truly physiological; we have no occasion (as we 
shall hereafter shew) to use agents that act pathologically, be- 
cause we do not cure by substituting one disease for another. 
“ We of the new school consider ourselves a part of the 
general profession in all things except in the features above 
named.” 
