MR. HAYCOCK ON HOMCEOPATHY. 
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REMARKS ON MR. HAYCOCK'S PAPER ON 
HOMOEOPATHY, 
( Which appeared in the May Number of the c Veterinarian .’) 
By Finlay Dun, Y.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica and 
Dietetics at the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
Mr. Haycock contributes to the May number of The 
Veterinarian a reply to what he is pleased to term “ my 
strictures on Homoeopathy/ 5 as they appeared in my recently 
published work on ‘Veterinary Medicines: their actions and 
uses. 5 The brief notice of Homoeopathy there contained, 
was thought worthy of being transferred entire to the pages 
of the Veterinarian (April), and elicited in the following 
month Mr. Haycock’s reply. To rebut this reply is an easy 
task, for my respondent confines his objections to one single 
expression, leaving the rest of my four pages of so-called 
“ strictures 55 on Homoeopathy unassailed and uncontradicted. 
The objections are in fact quite Homoeopathic. In noticing 
the views propounded by Hahnemann, I have said that he 
teaches the following doctrine : “ that the cure of a disease is 
effected by the administration, in small doses, of such medi- 
cines as would, when given to a healthy subject in large 
quantity, induce the same disease. 55 Mr. Haycock has written 
a paper of five pages long, to show that in this definition I 
have “entirely misrepresented the principles of Homoeopathy/ 
because I have employed the word same , when, according to 
him, I should have usedthe'word similar. Let us look for a 
moment at the opinions of Homoeopathists on this little 
matter. They entertain the belief that remedies are more 
appropriate the more nearly their effects resemble those of the 
disease they are given to cure. The founder of Homoeopathy, 
in his great ‘Organon 5 * — a work held in highest veneration 
by every Homoeopathist — expressly states that the symptoms 
of a disease and its appropriate remedy should be, not only 
similar, but “as similar as possible 55 (p. 133), “the most 
similar possible 55 (pp. 230 and 175). Surely these statements 
* ‘ Organon of Medicine,’ by Samuel Hahnemann, translated from the 
fifth German edition, by R. E. Dudgeon, M.D., London, 1849. This im- 
portant contribution by the so-called apostle of Homoeopathy, is generally 
regarded as the standard book on the subject. In discussing the merits of 
this new medical creed, 1 have therefore taken my quotations chiefly from 
this work. 
