654 REVIEW— MANUAL OF VETERINARY HOMOEOPATHY. 
before him a volume containing rather more than 300 pages, in 
which it is stated that, “incontestible success has fora lengthened 
period attended the application of homoeopathic principles to 
veterinary medicine; and a reply is given, in a very peremptory 
manner, to those sceptics of homoeopathy who deny that cures 
are obtained by its practice.” It is, indeed, affirmed that the 
author has cured nearly 300 of the most frequent diseases in 
domestic animals with facility and promptness. As this is the 
first time that our profession has been thus challenged, the 
readers of this Journal will forgive our entering into the subject 
at some considerable length. 
Dr. Sigmond, in his invaluable lectures on the materia medica 
and therapeutics, gives a very interesting account of Hahnneman, 
the founder of homoeopathy. We insert an abstract of it. 
Hahnneman was born in the year 1755, at Meisson, in Sax- 
ony, and from his early jrouth was distinguished for his industry, 
and his facility in acquiring information. In the year 1775 he 
went to the University of Leipsic, the whole sum contained in his 
purse amounting to only twenty ducats. With a praiseworthy 
industry, he increased his humble resources by translating the 
most esteemed of our English medical works. To this occupa- 
tion he owed his acquaintance with medical science, and that 
love of inquiry for which he was so justly distinguished. 
From Leipsic he proceeded to Vienna, where he gained the 
good opinion of Professor Quarin ; but the expenses of a capital 
were too great for his limited finances, and he was on the point 
of abandoning his profession, when he was introduced to the 
Governor of Transylvania, to whom he became librarian and phy- 
sician. With him he remained until he had accumulated a sum 
sufficient to enable him to take his degree at Erlangen. He 
then devoted himself to the study of chemistry, and to translations 
for the German periodicals, from the English, French, and Italian 
journals ; after which, he undertook the translation of Cullen’s 
Materia Medica into the German language. 
When employed about this, he was struck with the decided 
febrifugal power of quinquina , and found himself unable satisfac- 
torily to account for it, while he was quite dissatisfied with the 
explanations of others. His devotion to philosophical inquiry 
induced him to institute various experiments on himself, in order 
to solve the difficulty. He found, or thought that he found, that 
bark, when he was in a state of health, produced, to a certain 
degree, a state of intermittent fever, analagous to that for which 
this drug was administered as a specific remedy. It produced 
the identical fever of ague, but in a less and, sometimes, almost 
inappreciable degree. u In fact, that which produced a deviation 
