THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
V °n; ^9, VI1 ’ SEPTEMBER, 1854. 
Third Series, 
No. 81. 
HOMCEOPATHY v. ALLOPATHY. 
A Reply to the Observations of Mr. Dun, which appeared in 
e The Veterinarian’ for August 1854. By W. Haycock, 
Y.S., &c. 
‘‘No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has first contended 
against it, neither has he a thorough acquaintance with the hindrances or 
talents of men, until he has suffered from the one, and seen the triumph of 
the other over his own want of the same.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
“ 1 1 tell you I will lie in nothing,’ answered Don Quixote ; ‘ make, 
therefore, either a beginning or an end of asking ; for in truth, you tire me 
out with so many preambles, postulations, and preparatives, Sancho.’ ” — 
Jarvis's ‘ Bon Quixote p. 227, vol. ii. 
Sir, — I must confess my astonishment at Mr. DunVcom- 
munication of last month, from the lofty position assumed by 
him in the first instance as knight errant to Allopathy, and 
generalissimo to the veterinary ranks at large : I scarcely 
expected that he would have raised the siege, and evacuated 
the provinces of homoeopathy so suddenly. After main- 
taining the battle very hotly for some months, he all at once 
abandons it, and the only plea he adduces for so doing, is, 
that he is sorry, and that time will not permit ; otherwise, I 
suppose, the punishment and slaughter would be something 
unparalleled in the annals of modern warfare. In my last 
communication I replied to the arguments of Mr. Dun 
seriatim, and in every instance with most triumphant proof 
of their fallacy, and utter want of every essential as aids to the 
cause he was endeavouring to support. The great portion of 
the facts which I advanced, were drawn from the ranks of the 
enemy, or in other words from the writings of men, who did 
or who do pursue the same course in the treatment of disease 
which my opponent himself does — these arguments and 
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