HOMEOPATHY IN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
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thus arrayed the two systems, and by dint of assertion and per¬ 
suasion have crowded themselves upon the field of veterinary 
medicine with the object of selling their wares. Compilations 
of veterinary homeopathic materia medica have been issued os¬ 
tensibly with the same purpose of advertising and selling their 
wares. Translations of foreign homeopathic veterinary works 
are offered. Under the law of competition such things are 
natural. It is called business. But we are the representatives 
of science in our field. t By means of recorded observations we 
build the substantial edifice of veterinary science. We would 
not remove a stone from this edifice if we could not replace it 
with a better one. The question is, can we to any extent 
reconstruct this edifice on the principles of homeopathy ? My 
note-book discloses that during a period of two years we treated 
diseases with the homeopathic and regular methods in order to 
form an idea of their comparative value. By comparison we see 
quickly the perfections and imperfections of the things com¬ 
pared. 
History shows that the regular or rational school of medi¬ 
cine has been a development unhampered by any restrictive 
tenets. Its foundation stones are reason, experiment and expe¬ 
rience. Its aim has been truth. It accepts truth from any 
quarter. Recognizing disease as an entity it has developed the 
sciences that include the phenomena of causes, viz., anatomy, 
physiology, biology, pathology, morbid anatomy and bacteri¬ 
ology. Operating in sympathy with nature’s laws, it seeks to 
remove causes. It does not claim to cure disease, but recog¬ 
nizes the healing power of nature. It uses every reasonable 
means to accomplish results. It stands ready to reject the ideas 
and methods of yesterday, if it can substitute better ones to-day. 
It is progressive. It is not an exclusive system. It has not 
discovered any universal law of therapeutics. It does not claim 
to have found any law in nature either of similars or opposites 
according to which drugs exclusively influence the animal or¬ 
ganism. It has witnessed the birth and death of exclusive 
systems. It needs not to go outside of itself, in direct disobed- 
