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REPORTS OF CASES. 
advance in medicine has met with strong opposition from the 
mass of the profession. The Freneh Academy, in 1642, de¬ 
clared that the blood did not circulate ; in 1672, that it was 
impossible. In 1609 it expelled one of its members for using 
quinine in the treatment of ague ; the great allopathic specific 
in the treatment of that disease of to-day. In fact, many claim 
that it is the only specific in the entire materia medica. The 
great Harvey was persecuted for his discovery of the circulation 
of the blood. The opposition which Dr. Jenner met with when 
he brought forth his theory of vaccination as a preventive 
against small-pox is well known. 
Homoeopathy met with a similar reception. Hahnemann 
was compelled to move eleven times, by the persecution of his 
colleagues, under cover of the law, which they had passed, pro¬ 
hibiting physicians from dispensing their own prescriptions. 
This, of course, prevented Hahnemann from practicing, as no 
apothecary could put up his medicines. He was eventually 
driven to Paris, where he died in 1843, at the age of 82. 
In 1851, the Council of Leipsic (his last place of residence in 
Germany) appropriated a beautiful plot of ground for a site for 
a monument of Hahnemann, the man who they had forced to 
leave their city thirty years before, as an unauthorized and 
illegal prescriber. 
(To be Continued.) 
REPORTS OF ~ASES. 
FNTERO-UMBILKL . FISTULA. 
By M. Francis, Texas. 
On January 24, 1894, a three-year-old gray mule was brought 
to the infirmary for treatment. The following history was given : 
For several months there had been noticed a hole through the 
umbilicus through which considerable quantities of ingesta would 
escape whenever the animal made sudden or severe exertion. 
The mule was very wild, making examination of the parts im- 
