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allude were treated according to the orthodox mode; they 
were bled, had gentle aperients, antispasmodics, and powerful 
sedatives, but without avail. The third case occurred not long 
ago; it was treated homoeopathically, and recovered. As the 
disease is of so rare a character, and as the treatment was new, 
I will detail the case, and enable the professional reader to 
judge for himself as to its nature and general character.” 
For “ the case” we must refer to the work itself. 
Setting aside its homoeopathic doctrines and therapeutics, 
the work we have been examining is one that recommends 
itself on the score of its being the production of a talented 
and observant veterinarian—a man who has neither slumbered 
nor idled at his post; but, on the contrary, has diligently 
spent his time in collating cases and transient occurrences in 
practice; and out of facts therefrom deduced, has formed a 
groundwork, upon which we would fain have seen a super¬ 
structure of a different character from the one he has erected 
upon them. Notwithstanding this, however, the book is of a 
stamp which certainly makes us feel that we, as Allopathists , 
have lost a man out of our ranks, who, whether he enrich the 
homoeopathic cause or not, had it in his power, in our pre¬ 
sent pauperised and apathetic literary condition, to materially 
aid us in the advancement of veterinary science. Had Mr. 
Haycock been—as, alas ! it cannot be denied, too many of our 
members are—an apathist , he would never have turned ho- 
moeopathist. It is in his devotion and love for his profession 
that he, in a sanguine hope of being able to do more, has 
turned away from the broad and tried road pursued by the 
regular practitioner, to follow a bye-lane which the Medical 
Colleges, and Schools, and Professors have, one and all of 
them, seen reason to denounce as a methodus medendi not a 
whit better than the medecine expectante of the foreign, or the 
vis medicatrix natures, of our own school. 
Shaws Self-Cleaning Currycomb. 
Thus is entitled a new invention, which has recently been 
registered, and a happy enough idea it is;—one, indeed, not 
likely to have entered the head of anybody save either an 
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