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chemical action, mechanical violence, or unhygienic surround¬ 
ings.—(Browning on “ Homeopathy.”) The Medical Investiga¬ 
tor (a homeopathic publication) in 1876 said reprovingly : “ How 
many claiming to be homeopaths are entirely disregarding the 
law of similia . It is getting to be quite a rare thing to hear of 
a homeopathic practitioner conducting a serious case from be¬ 
ginning to end without using as such cathartics, sudorifics, 
diuretics, etc., in direct opposition to our law.”—(Encyclopaedia 
Brit., 9th Ed.) Says a writer in the Homeopathic Tunes : “To 
give one or more persons a drug, and register all their peculiar 
fancies and ideas, does not furnish any reliable evidence of the 
real effects of the drug.” Says one homeopathist; u The question 
of potencies seems to have aroused a spirit of contention in the 
homeopathic fraternity about as bitter as any between the old 
and the new.” Dr. Kidd says : “ I have cast dynamized drugs 
in toto as untrustworthy and unjust to the sick.”—(Browning on 
“ Homeopathy.”) 
With the homeopathic house divided against itself—with 
modern medical discoveries tending away from and not toward 
the doctrine of similia , isopathy is in no scientific sense like 
homeopathy. With the achievement of excellent success in the 
field of veterinary medicine according to the rational principles 
of the regular school, with boundless scope for the exercise of 
inventive genius and investigation afforded by a system of medi¬ 
cine that is bound by no law, but is free to work out the secrets 
of nature in her department through the exercise of observation, 
experiment and reason and thus to eliminate error and arrive 
at truth, should we not be proud to be workers in such a field ? 
To any who wish to investigate this matter I refer them to works 
from some of which I have quoted, viz., “The Organon of the 
Healing Art,” “The American Homeopathic Pharmacy,” “The 
Homeopathic Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica,” “ Hahne¬ 
mann on Chronic Diseases,” Gunther, Haycock, and Boerichs 
and Tafel on “ Veterinary Materia Medica,” “ The Encyclopsedia 
Brit.,” 9th Ed. Also to an admirable essay on “ Homeopathy,” 
by Dr. Browning, of New York. 
