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Haycock, towards the end of his paper, adverts, in no very 
complimentary terms, to the experiments made in Edinburgh 
with the Homoeopathic system on the lower animals. These 
experiments, I may inform him, were carefully and honestly 
made, not by an Allopathist, but by a most accomplished 
Homoeopathic physician and surgeon. They terminated, 
however, in disappointment and failure. 
I might trespass still further on the patience of my readers 
by adducing many other facts and arguments, proving to 
any unprejudiced and rational man the truthlessness and ab- 
surdity of Homoeopathy. This is, however, unnecessary, 
especially as the readers of this journal have already in their 
hands (see April number), a considerable mass of condem- 
natory evidence, which Mr. Haycock in his reply has for 
reasons best known to himself passed over unnoticed. Per- 
haps, to use his own words, he believed it to contain ‘ f a 
something not only pithy, but very damaging to the new 
doctrine.” 
In conclusion, I have to inform Mr. Haycock that I have 
been much flattered by his paper; for although a keen 
Homceopathist, a clever practitioner, and an ingenious writer, 
he has been unable to pick out from my four pages on 
Homoeopathy a single respectable error, or to subvert a single 
statement. Taking exception only to what could at most be 
regarded as a verbal inaccuracy, Mr. H. has attempted to 
show that I had “ entirely misrepresented the principles of 
Homoeopathy,” and has further politely styled my observa- 
tions, “ a farrago of stuff,” and “ a mass of absurd crudities.” 
The former of these charges I have already endeavoured to 
disprove; the latter requires no comment, for the so-called 
“ stuff” and “ crudities ” still stand unanswered and uncon- 
troverted either by Mr. H. or any one else. 
Edinburgh Veterinary College ; 
May 13, 1854. 
PRONENESS TO EXOSTOSIS FROM EARTHY 
IMPREGNATION OF WATER. 
By T. Orme Dudfield, M.R.C.V.S., Cheltenham. 
[\ Abstract of a paper read before the Veterinary Medical 
Association , Feb. 2d, 1852.] 
In a hunting stud at Cheltenham, numerous horses, in a 
series of years, became the subjects of those diseases, in com- 
