112 HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASE. 
however faulty these humble efforts of mine may prove to 
be, they have been brought forward with one simple, earnest 
desire—that they may prove a stimulus, inciting onward 
progress by all in this beautiful open field of biological 
research, which is ever, and without any apparent exhaus¬ 
tion, holding out so much for all those who will but dive 
into nature’s hidden recesses—recesses which are replete with 
treasures of unlimited worth and munificent grandeur. 
HOMCEOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DISEASE. 
Reply from Mr. S. Gill, M.R.C.V.S., Hastings, to Dr. 
Bowler, Y.S., Cincinatti, Ohio. 
Gentlemen, —In January month’s issue of the Veterina¬ 
rian I find a letter, principally on castration, by a Dr. Bowler, 
styling himself also a Veterinary Surgeon, although I do not 
find his name in our College register, in which he attacks my 
system of cure by homoeopathy in such a manner that I must, 
by your kind permission, repeat that the dog was wired, and, 
as such, it might be asked. What need is there of further 
testimony ? . 
Dr. Bowler, however, seems to need more than this evi¬ 
dence; therefore, allow me to say allopathic doses of tincture 
aconite are from three to ten minims, prepared according to 
Professor Tuson’s * Pharmacopoeia/ The homoeopathic 
doses are tinctures of the ninth strength, three to five drops, 
according to the size of the animal, prepared by one of the 
best homoeopathic chemists in London. The mother tinc¬ 
ture being of great strength, one drop to two would be a 
sufficient dose. 
I am (unfortunately for the doctor’s notions of my habits) 
a total abstainer , therefore do not require either e< allopathic” 
or homoeopathic doses of whiskey and water, which he as a 
medical man should know is poison to the human frame 
and destructive of tissue. Besides which it and such like 
stimulants often lead men blindly on to speak glibly “ in 
Heaven’s name” of persons and things they know nothing 
about. Yours, &c. 
To the Editors of the { Veterinarian .* 
