Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Homeopathy, Disease, War, Medical Treatment, Mental Illness

    Discusses a report in The Times of two Union military generals in America who used homeopathy to treat their diseases with some success. Believes that because they have submitted to homeopathy they are not fit to 'direct military operations' and that there is a danger that it will be 'all gone goose with the Federal cause'. Adds that the only reason for thinking that the homeopathic treatment was 'anything but humbug' was the observation that it seemed to aggravate the condition of one of the patients, and accordingly suggests that homeopathy is a 'cause of disease'.