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of nature ; some of them will be regarded with curiosity and sur¬ 
prise. Apis mellifiae is made from the stingers of bees. Dachesis 
from the venom of a poisonous snake. Lyssin from the saliva 
of a mad dog. Vulpis hepor from the liver of the fox. Mephites 
from the odor substance of the skunk. Psorinum is prepared 
from the pus of the human itch. A tincture has been prepared 
from the pus of gonorrhoea and administered internally to cure 
that disease. The insect world furnishes the bed bug, cock¬ 
roach, house fly, head louse, wood louse, ant, potato bug, spider 
and others. These insects are crushed and their juices received 
into alcohol or milk sugar. These tinctures are used for in¬ 
ternal medicaticn. The tendency to use the remedies and 
doses of the regular school of medicine has become general 
among progressive homeopathic physicians. A travelling man 
for a wholesale drug house informed me recently of his having 
good customers in the homeopathic fraternity. That he sold 
more tablets to homeopathic than to regular physicians. 
The homeopathic physician who a number of years ago 
urged me to practice veterinary homeopathy and who treated me 
with homeopathic remedies, gave the following prescription to 
one of my acquaintances : Potassi; iodide, 3 iv ; stillingii, fl. ext, 
Jss ; syr. sarsaparill. co., ad 5 iv. Sig., etc. I reproached him 
with : u Doctor, is this homeopathy? ” His reply was, u What 
difference does it make if the medicine will do the patient 
good ? ” These illustrations show that the law of u similia ” is 
not sufficient and is only partly adhered to and then in minor 
ailments of the human family and in maladies that require more 
nursing than medicine. The Homeopathic Society of New 
York in 1879, by a vote of thirty-three to fifteen, resolved that 
in the treatment of disease the formula causa sublata tolliiur 
effectus (cause and effect) is often to be remembered and used 
to advantage.—(Browning on u Homeopathy.”) In a recent 
number of the Homeopathic Monthly Dr. Duke makes the broad 
statement that the law of similars is not applicable to any 
diseases which are characterized by destruction of tissues, or 
where the cause cannot be removed, or to such as are due to 
