THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
YOL. XXVII, TTTTV i qza Third Series, 
No. 319. JVLiY, 1»04. No. 79. 
HOMCEOPATHY v. ALLOPATHY. 
A Reply to certain Strictures on Homoeopathy written by Mr. Finlay 
Dun, Lecturer on Materia Medica at the Fdinburgh Veterinary 
College . By W. Haycock, Y.S. M.R C.Y.S., &c. 
“ The poet that beautified the sect, that was otherwise inferior to the rest, 
saith yet excellently well : 4 It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to 
see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a 
castle, and to see a battle, and the adventurers thereof below ; but no plea- 
sure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill 
not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and 
to see the errors and wanderings, and mists and tempests, in the vale be- 
low ; 5 so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling 
pride. 55 — Lord Bacon. 
Sir, — In my last communication I proved that the ex- 
planation which Mr. Dun had given as to what homoeopathy 
is, was an erroneous one. I proved that his error consisted 
in substituting the word same for the word similar . My 
opponent designates this a “ little matter, 55 little it may be 
in itself, but trifling it is not, for upon the right use of this 
said word similar, depends, in the present instance, the 
truth or falsehood of the question at issue. It is of no use 
my opponent endeavouring to shirk this matter; our dispute 
is simply this, has Mr. Dun, in the explanation which he 
gives of homoeopathy, given a true explanation ? I have, I 
again assert, proved that he has not, and it would have been 
not only more courteous, but also more honest in Mr. Dun, if 
he had confined his remarks in reply to my last communica- 
tion, to the matter at issue ; instead of which, sir, I find six 
or seven pages of your journal occupied with what cannot be 
designated by any other name than allopathic clap-trap of the 
very oldest kind, viz., groundless charges respecting homceo- 
pathists not cultivating pathology ; that they pay too much 
attention to mere symptoms; after which we are favoured 
with a number of comparisons between homoeopathy, phreno- 
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