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animals , as contra distinguished from human beings, be 
obnoxious to hysteria, then would it appear to be solely on 
this latter account, and then may we expect to see it attacking 
such species and individuals among them as are, by art* 
subjected to a treatment likely to engender complaints of the 
kind. Taking mankind in general, the horse and the dog are 
the animals peculiarly cared for and fostered by us. They live 
in houses equal to our own, the latter even in the same house 
with ourselves ; they are (the horse at least is) comfortably 
clothed, and they are fed with the choicest provender, to 
which combined causes it is that we w r ould, we repeat, ascribe 
their liability to hysteria; supposing it be admitted, as matter 
of demonstration, that these animals become, on occasions, 
hysterical patients. For our own part, we must, in limine , con- 
fess our practical unacquaintance with the disease described by 
Mr. Haycock, at least as appearing to us under the appella- 
tion he has given to it ; this may possibly be owing to our 
practice having been chiefly among military horses ; such not 
being, with few exceptions, clothed at all; neither are they 
kept in warm stables, nor highly fed on provender of the best 
quality. 
In the pamphlet before us, “On Hysteria in the Mare,” 
Mr. Haycock stands or falls, as to the presumable nosological 
truth of his observations, on the basis of matter of fact. He 
puts forth his cases, the foremost in his work, detailed to every 
appearance, in his usual garb of accuracy and truthfulness ; 
from them he draws his own inferences ; and then leaves, nay, 
invites, his reader to come to his own conclusions on the 
subject. His own “remarks” on them, placed in finale 
in his pamphlet, are as follow : 
“Remarks. — I have now presented to the reader an ac- 
count of six cases of a most singular malady. The cases 
here given are the whole of the kind which have ever come 
under my notice. I have detailed the facts of each case 
exactly in the order in which they occurred, and for their 
accuracy and truthfulness I vouch in every essential. In 
the treatise on Veterinary Homoeopathy which I published 
some timo ago,* I gave the first account of this affection ever 
* See my ‘Elements of Veterinary Homoeopathy/ p.285; London, 
Aylott and Co. 
