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woman may have hysteria if she can have but emotion of mind 
enough. Mr. Haycock’s cases owe their origin to neither 
mental affection nor to any excitement or abnormality of the 
sexual organs. In only one of the cases (case IV) were any 
symptoms manifested of the mare being “in use for the 
horse the others are nervous, convulsive, or spasmodic 
affections, which, though called " hysteria,” were wanting in 
some important requisites to make up that affection, properly 
so called ; such as no choking and globus hystericus (wanting 
perhaps, from the circumstance of the horse not being an 
animal capable of vomition), no pale, limpid urine ; only a 
single one instead of a succession of fits ; a fatal disease ; 
although “ simple and pure hysteria,” as Dr. Copland says, 
“is rarely or almost never fatal.” But what appears to us 
(allopathists) most extraordinary of all, is, that the two cases 
that died were treated allopathically , or, in the language of our 
school, secundum artem ; whereas, the four horses which re- 
covered took homoeopathic doses of belladonna, aconite, mer- 
curius, pulsatilla 1” &c. 
To show how difficult pathological writers, even of great 
repute, find it to frame a definition which shall apply to every 
form of this Protean disease, we hang over the threshold of 
our remarks, the observation w ith which Dr. Copland qualifies 
as the u best” he has been able to insert in his c Dictionary,’ 
viz., “ under this definition may be arranged all those disorders 
which, from their varied and changing forms , and their resemblance 
to many serious , and even to several dangerous or structural diseases , 
have puzzled and misled the inexperienced.” 
We cannot make so free with Mr. Haycock’s work as to 
transcribe from it the “ Cases since, if w r e did so, we should 
have absorbed the entire work, and, moreover, left ourselves 
hardly any space for comment. We therefore beg such of 
our readers as feel interested in the matter, will buy (for 
one shilling only) the book ; and, after they shall have atten- 
tively perused and considered it, they will favour us with 
their several opinions on the subject. We cannot make up 
our minds to the “ cases” being such as would warrant for 
them such an appellation as " hysteria and yet, we must 
