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Manual of Veterinary Homoeopathy comprehending the Treat- 
ment of the Diseases of Domestic Animals. From the German 
of M. W. London : Hurst and Bailliere. 
No pains have been spared since our last publication to ascertain 
the name of the author of this work. We like to tell a man to 
his face what we think of him and his doctrines. We have not 
been able to obtain the slightest clue to the real authorship of the 
volume that we have undertaken to review. We will, however, 
take it for granted that this work contains the real opinion of the 
author with regard to the control of the system of homoeopathy 
over the diseases of our domesticated quadrupeds; and we will en- 
deavour freely and unreservedly to meet him on his own ground. 
The difference between our practice and his is this, — that while we 
apply certain remedies in order to subdue the existing malady, he 
seeks for a medicine the effect of which bears some analogy to the 
prominent symptoms of that malady. We inquire into the seat 
and the cause of the disease — he seeks for a medicine which will 
produce the veritable symptoms of the malady — a medicine destruc- 
tive, probably, if administered in the usual dose, but destructive to 
the disease when administered in infinitissimal minute doses. 
The 300 diseases over which the homoeopathist assumes a per- 
fect control are arranged alphabetically. We will take a rapid 
survey of the principal of them, leaving the reader, in a great mea- 
sure, to draw his own conclusions. 
The first that comes under notice is ABORTION, a too frequent 
evil in our sheep-folds and cattle-yards. To counteract this the 
Arnica Montana or Leopard's Bane is recommended, especially 
if the animal has had a fall or blow. The leaves and flowers of 
this plant, a native of northern Europe, are said to be narcotic, 
stimulant, and diaphoretic, and its root tonic and aromatic. It still 
maintains its place in the materia medica of some English writers, 
but it is seldom or almost never used. The French have almost dis- 
carded it from their list of drugs, but the Germans attribute to it 
wondrous power in a great variety of diseases, particularly in 
typhus and putrid fever, ague and palsy. The writer of this 
work gives a list of more than sixty diseases over which it has 
almost sovereign power. 
Toxicodendron is recommended in cases of dislocation or strain; 
but the favorite antidote for abortion is Camphor, of which the fol- 
lowing account is given : — 
“A heifer two years old was often at heat, but had never con- 
ceived. On the 13th of December, 1824, she was again with the 
bull. I gave her (40 drops) sol. camphorse in three ounces of 
water. She conceived, and, in due time, produced a calf. I had 
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