a later period, and listen to DR. CHRISTISON,
the present eminent Professor of _Materia Medica_ at the University of
Edinburgh. He says:

"Of all medical sciences, therapeutics is the most
unsatisfactory in its present state, and the least advanced
in progress, and surrounded by the most deceitful sources of
fallacy."

SIR JOHN FORBES, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians: Physician
to the Queen's Household, late editor of the "British and Foreign
Medical Review," after a frank admission of the imperfections of
Allopathic medicine, says:

"FIRST. That in a large proportion of the cases treated by
Allopathic physicians, the disease is cured by Nature and not
by them."

"SECOND. That in a lesser, but still not a small proportion,
the disease is cured in spite of them; in other words, their
interference opposing instead of assisting the cure."

"THIRD. That, consequently in a considerable proportion of
diseases, it would be as well, or better with patients, in
the actual condition of the medical art, as more generally
practiced, if all remedies, at least active remedies
especially drugs were abandoned." And finally adds, "Things
have arrived at such a pitch that they cannot be worse. They
must mend or end."

But, I may be asked, what are the views of the Professors and writers
in our own country. Have they no more confidence in the healing art
than their brethren in the old world? Let us see:

DR. RUSH, one of the lights of the profession in his day, remarks:

"The healing art is an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top
and cracked at the foundation."

And again:

"Our want of success results from the following causes:
FIRST.--Ignorance of the law governing disease. SECOND.--Our
ignorance of a suitable remedy THIRD.--Want of efficacy in the
remedy; and finally we have assisted in multiplying disease;
nay, we have done more: we have increased their mortality."

Professor CHAPMAN, who stood at the head of the profession in
Philadelphia, in an address to the medical society, after speaking of
the pernicious effects of calomel, adds:

"Gentlemen, it is a disgraceful reproach to the profession
of medicine; it is quackery, horrid unwaranted murderous
quackery.... But I will ask another question, who is it that
can stop the career of mercury at will, after it has taken the
reins into its own