Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-06
Agricultural.
The Treatment of the Cattle Plague.
For the Freeman


BY some reports it would seem that the Home
opathic treatment of the cattle plague was not
meeting with the same success in England which
it had in Holland. But whether these come from
reliable sources not unable to say. 1t
may yet be premature to judge of its trial in Eng
land, as the matter is of very recent experiment.
Possibly these reports may be got up out OF no
very friendly, even honest mo tives-as there
was much hostility against the system in certain
quarters, and disposition to prevent its having
any trial at all. The sweeping which &C
companies these adverse reports, leads us to more
than suspect the whole truth is not yet before us
We ale quite disposed to wait and hear from the
proper authorities, and the legally constituted
board after full trial. In the great epidemics
OF the last few years, such cholera and yellow
fever, it has assuredly been able to gain the pub
lie attention, and not little credit And status
tics based upon their practice has led to the re-
cent formation Of two Life Insurance Companies
one in England, and one in America, in which the
Home 'athic system is so far recognized, as to
enable persons treated to effect an Insurance q,
ten per cent. less.
Lord Bury, in an address before the cattle peg que
Association, presented the following report of the
Homeopathic practice in Holland
10 September, when the cattle plague was rao.
ing IN Holland. two Belgian gentleman, NJ. Gaudy
a member OF the Veterinary College, Brussels
and NJ. Sentin, homeopathic chemist, offered tc
the Dutch Government that, if a district were
put under their charge, and they would not allow
them TO be nterferred with, and would not require
them to make a report until sufficient number
IF haH ~
part give their services gratuitousy, and try their
system fairly. This was accepted by the Dutch
Government, who agreed to give a commune VI
TO the homepaths, it being understood that the
veterinary surgeon of that commune should be
required to certify that every case that came under
HOMEOPATHIC treatment was actual case of rim
terpest. MatterEess, the district assigned to the
hom9Paths, was a commune situated in the very
centre of the infected district. The peasants and
proPrietors were somewhat prejudiced against the
homeopathic system in the first instance, and did
not enter cordially into the views of the home
paths; but before the termination of the experi-
ment they were greatly pleased with it, and gave
every assistance IN their power. At the com
mencement OF the experiment, the proportion of
cures effected out of the animals attacked was 70
per cent; but in the latter weeks the homepaths
saved nine out of every ten cattle which came
under their treatment. Matteruess was situated
vi hin mile of Kethe, in the very centre of
what had come to De styled the = black district :"
so that the homepaths did not enter upon the r
task under peculiarly favorable circumstances
They commenced in September %, and eighty
beasts came under their care, each case being GER
tilted by the veterinary surgeon as one of actual
rnderpestj OF these eighty animals, sixty recov-
cred and twenty died. Besides these, 23O beasts
in The commune we're put under prophyiac no
mepatnIc treatment; 10 took the disease before
the treatment had had time to work, but in the
fourth week no fresh case had occurred and on
toe Dist OF October, the commune was pronounced
free from disease, and had remained free from
that time to the present. A large portion of the
cattle attacked IN the commune of Matterness had
been treated by the aliopaths before the homo
paths came INTO the district. In all, 1S9 cases
cane -nder treatment; eighty under the hong-
pathlc system, and 100 uDder the other. AS 10
cures only were effected, of which sixty were at
tFbued 10 an official report 10 hon epaths, the
balance wa largely in favor of the homeopathic
mode OF treatment. The remedies which wer,
employ ed by the homepaLhs were Arsenicum.
Phosphorus, Phosphoric acid, Rhus tox, and Sui
phur- IL vas found that all cattle could not be
treated alike, every case had to be dealt with
on It's own merits.