More Illustrations. Meissonier's Dog. Count Radetsky.

I will now quote the case of the homœopathic cure of an animal. It is taken from The Times of Jan. 6, 1888, being communicated in a letter to the editor in the course of the Odium Medicum correspondence, afterwards published in a book from under the title of Odium Medicum and Homœopathy.

Meissonier's Testimony in Favour of Homœopathy. — To the Editor of the Times.

"Yours faithfully, " A Pupil of Meissonier."

"Messieurs Meissonier père et fils apprenant qu'on met en doute le guérison d'une petite chienne condamnée à mort par les vétérinaires de Paris, affirment que cette petite bête a été radicalement guérie d'une attaque de paralysie extrêmement violente par leur ami ---, qui l'a traitée par l'homœopathie. Cette petite chienne de race très pure va parfaitement bien et fait l'admiration de tous."

E. MEISSONIER, CH. MEISSONIER, fils.

Cure of count Radetsky.

I will next quote from Tract 5 of the Homœopathic League Series the historic cure of the famous Field-Marshal Count Radetsky :-

It is not only in acute disease that Homœopathy shows its superiority to every other method of treatment. Chronic diseases of the most obstinate and intractable nature, which have resisted all the appliances of the old school, are often rapidly and radically cured by the remedies of the new school. Diseases that have been pronounced incurable and necessarily fatal have, as every homœopathic practitioner knows from his own experience, been frequently perfectly cured by the mild but potent remedies of homœopathy. Not only has homœopathy lessened the mortality of serious but not necessarily fatal diseases, it has also extended the boundaries of remedial medication. The limits of this tract will not allow us to give many proofs of this statement, but one, which is of historical celebrity, may be here mentioned. In January 1841, the celebrated Austrian Field-Marshall Count Radetsky was suffering from a tumour in the orbit of the right eye, which pushed the eyeball outwards and forwards. The tumour had been growing since the previous October. The Emperor, with whom the Field-Marshall was a great favourite, sent his staff-physician Dr. Jæger, Professor of Ophthalmology in the Joseph's Academy of Vienna, to Milan where the patient resided, to consult with Dr. Flarer, Professor of Ophthalmology in Pavia, and the Field-Marshal's ordinary medical attendant, Staff-Surgeon Hartung, a homœopathic practitioner, to make a report upon the disease, and to advise as to the appropriate treatment. The three consultants met on the 26th of January, and after careful examination, unanimously pronounced the disease to be of a fungous cancerous character. The two professors held it to be incurable by any means known to them ; that a fatal termination was only a question of time ; and as they held medicine to the powerless in such a case, they would offer no suggestion as to treatment.

Dr. Hartung, while agreeing with the learned professor as to the hopelessness of a cure under ordinary treatment, thought that benefit might be derived from homœopathic remedies. The patient declared that he would have no other than homœopathic treatment. Under Dr. Hartung's homœopathic remedies, this formidable disease in this septuagenarian patient steadily declined. By the 19th of March the disease was perfectly cured, and no difference was observable in the two years after this, and was sufficiently active in mind and body to win the decisive battle of Novara in 1849.