HOMCKOPATHY IN VETERINARY PRACTICE. 
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century), without the most painful feeling of distrust in all 
modes of treatment.” 
Hippocrates made a similar statement twenty-two hundred 
years ago : “ The whole art is exposed to much censure from 
the vulgar, who fancy that really there is no such thing as 
science in medicine, since even in acute diseases practitioners 
differ so much among themselves, that those things which one 
administers as thinking the best that can be given another holds 
to be bad.” 
Such differences as this never occur among homoeopathic 
practitioners, as they prescribe according to a fixed natural 
law. 
“ The law of homoeopathy, as expressed in the words 
similia similibus cur ant ur (likes are to be treated with likes), 
should be understood as a simple statement of a natural fact, 
of universal occurrence, under certain conditions, which are 
essential, and in the absence of which it does not occur.”* 
Allopaths, as a rule, look upon homoeopathy and sugar pills 
as synonymous, and reject it without investigation. The 
homoeopathic law similia similibus curantur has nothing to do 
with the dose. A tablespoonful of castor oil may be prescribed 
in a certain case of diarrhoea, and be a perfectly homoeopathic 
prescription, and be followed by recovery. Yet this same case, 
if given the remedy in the potentized form, would have recovered 
much quicker, and not have suffered the pain caused by the 
large dose. The allopath will say that the recovery is due to 
the large dose emptying the bowels of the irritating matters 
that are causing the diarrhoea. If that is the case, why are not 
all cases of diarrhoea, in which it is administered, followed by 
recovery ? It is a well-known fact that only certain cases are. 
In the proving of castor oil we find “ diarrhoea stool whitish, 
watery, bloody mucus frequent. During stool foetid flatus, burn¬ 
ing at anus.” 
Homoepathy simply means that a remedy given to the healthy 
* The Principles of Homoepathy. By Dr. Sharp. 
