appliances for illustrating and inforcing our tenets, are so
repeatedly beaten? Why is it that individuals and corporations
are becoming convinced that their interests require them to
employ hom[oe]opathic in preference to regular physicians? For
myself, in spite of the logic of events, I still believe,
and my belief is founded upon a thorough investigation of
the principles of hom[oe]opathy, and observations upon the
practice of many of its most distinguished disciples, that
in no way can a man so efficiently equip himself for the
responsibility of the management of disease, and the custody
of health as in the study of regular medicine.

If we take it for granted that the past experience and
observations of physicians are of service to physicians at
present, and I do not think we will be charged with assumption
for considering this an axiom; then why is it that a sect
which disregards all traditions of medicine, and found their
system upon a dogma which contradicts all that we have held as
truth, why is it that they are flourishing and we are going to
the wall?

The answer to this question presents itself to my mind under
two heads, which may be formularized as follows: Hom[oe]opathy
lives upon the disgrace brought upon the profession of
medicine by the low standard of medical education, and
flourishes upon the intolerant opposition it has received at
the hands of regular physicians.

It is with the second, the lesser of the two evils I propose
to deal at this time.

The treatment of hom[oe]opathy by the regular profession
in past years is so well known as to require no mention,
therefore let us turn our attention to the present, and by
reading its signs in the light of the past, endeavor to do
something for our future.

The position of the regular profession in regard to
hom[oe]opathy may be expressed in a few words. We are not
aware of their existence. They have no professional rights
which we are bound to respect, and when forced by some
laymen to speak upon the subject, or give an opinion upon
hom[oe]opathy, the opinion is that it is a "humbug." This line
of treatment was bad enough when hom[oe]opathy was young, but
now when we stand on equal footing before the law, and nearly
equal before the public, it is suicidal.

It may be well to exp