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years. If a greater attenuation is supposed to be required, the 
powders are dissolved in a mixture of alcohol and water. 
Such is a rapid outline of the homoeopathic practice. In a 
former volume we referred to it, because it was said to have been 
tried, and with great success, on our patients, and particularly 
in cases of rabies. We confess that we might not then have 
done justice to the subject. We may have treated it somewhat 
too lightly ; but now that a volume is published of its successful 
application to “ the treatment of the diseases of domestic ani- 
mals/’ it demands serious consideration, and it shall have it. 
When we are told that it has cured nearly 300 of the most fre- 
quent diseases of our quadruped slaves with facility and prompt- 
ness, it comes home to >ur business and bosoms. 
We must, however, confess at the outset, we perfectly agree 
with Dr. Sigmond that “ the practice which Hahnneman incul- 
cates is totally at variance with that which experience, observa- 
tion, and reasoning, have from the earliest period taught us,” and, 
on the whole, 
“ Some truth there is, but dash’d and brew’d with lies, 
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.” 
We meet with another impediment at the very threshold of 
our inquiry. We observe with mingled surprise, disappointment, 
and indignation, that the author of the present volume, he who 
professes to be able to render such essential service to the agri- 
culturist — he to whom, if he effects but a small part of that which 
he promises, a statue ought to be erected in every country — 
refrains to sanction with his name a work of such importance. 
We now, in the name of the veterinary surgeons and agricul- 
turists of Great Britain, and of Europe, call upon the author of 
this work to give us some better assurance of who or what he is, 
than the short and mysterious introduction of, “ From the German 
of M. W ### ” will afford. There shall be no foul play ; but we 
have a right to know with whom we are about to contend. Still, 
however, we will be at our post at the beginning of the next 
month. Y. 
THE TREATMENT OF PHRENITIS, OR INFLAMMA- 
TION OF THE BRAIN IN SWINE. 
By Mr. Cupiss, Diss, Norjolk. 
A store pig of mine, weighing about five stones, which had 
been living on the usual kitchen refuse, and a little stale milk, 
was first noticed, on Wednesday morning last, to be walking- 
round its yard apparently much discontented and thin, and 
