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ON HOMOEOPATHY. 
and justice compel me at this time to publish some new docu- 
ments on the effects of the system of Hahnemann, as employed by 
M. Leblanc. His success has been so great that I should not 
have dared to believe it if I had not myself witnessed the perse- 
verance with which this veterinarian, in spite of the obstacles he 
has met with, has pursued his experimental treatment. Setting 
out, then, with a comparison of the losses that have been sus- 
tained, and of the cases that have been cured, I hope to be able 
to demonstrate that M. Leblanc has obtained results hitherto un- 
hoped for. 
LOSSES SUSTAINED IN THE COURSE OF EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY 
MONTHS. 
In the space of eighteen or twenty months the tenth regiment of 
Cuirassiers lost twenty-eight horses, slaughtered on account of 
glanders ; the state of weakness to which they were reduced putting 
any further medical treatment out of question. On a post-mortem, 
examination being made of nine or ten of these horses that had 
been killed by order of the inspector-general, in September 1835, 
it appeared that some of them were not wholly incurable, and in 
some cases, there seemed to be, on examination, a commence- 
ment of recovery. Lieut. General Cavaignac transmitted a report 
of this examination to the Minister of War, who gave orders that 
M. Leblanc should be allowed and directed to treat the glandered 
and farcied horses of the tenth regiment according to the ho- 
moeopathic method. 
Now, if we compare with these horses that were slaughtered 
the table given below of those that were radically cured, we must 
allow that two-fifths of the number of glandered horses saved 
and restored to the ranks is a result as great in itself as it is out 
of proportion to the success previously attained. 
Here follows a table of the numbers, registers, and names of 
eighteen glandered horses, the dates of their admission into the 
infirmary, and of their dismissal, cured. 
The length of their several periods of being under treatment in 
the infirmary is as follows, in months : 5, 6, 4, 7, 4, 4, 1, 1, 3, 4, 
2, 3, 9, 4, 3, 2, 5, or an average of 3J months. 
Among these horses was a very noble one belonging to Count 
Piogier, commanding the second squadron, which was cured in less 
than two months ; the horse of quarter-master Heysch, which was 
affected with glanders and farcy ; L’Avis, a horse suffering from 
acute glanders, with sores and a green discharge “ avec chancres et 
jetage vert,” so severe that I assured M. Leblanc that in all probabi- 
lity this horse would have to be killed in a week; but great was my 
astonishment when I returned from leave of absence, in about a 
