1 is staled, “ More individuals perish through the intei-
2 fereri :e of pit) sieians, than are saved by ‘.heir assistance/’
3 Hence, many have lost all confidence in medicine:
4 for, , liie dark side (the defects of the art) cannot he
5 concealed from cvejrt the uninitiated. Lord Uacon says
6 ~“.T will not. deny that physicians of the present day
7 lire, indifferently well acquainted with the general symp¬
8 toms of u disease; hut, either they do not rightly
9 understand, or, have not sufficiently examined the medi¬
10 cines which they prescribe in particular cases. The
11 addition, diminution, and alteration of medicines, in the
12 most arbitrary manner, so that usually one medicine is
13 substituted for another, is quite a common proceeding.”
14 Peter Frank, in his System of Medical Police, Vol. 1.
15 says, “ It is strange that the government should interfere
16 only in time of epidemics and against charlatans, whilst
17 it takes no notice of the thousands who are daily .sacri¬
18 ficed in their solitary chambers. Governments should
19 determine either to bauish all physicians and their art.
20 or, take measures to render men’s lives more scope than
21 the\ are at present.”
22 Confessions like these, by physicians themselves, are
23 so numerous and so well known, as to render more
24 quotations unnecessary; those which 1 have given
25 affording the most conclusive evidence of the defective¬
26 ness arid uncertainty of Atht'opnlhic. medical science.
27 ‘ was, without doubt, the defects of the science
28 •of healing as practised by the Alloopathists, which
29 \minted the immortal Hahnemann to embrace and pro¬
30 pagate the doctrine of simifiu dmitibus cWanlur,
31 There cannot he anything more irrational, than
32 an implicit adherence to a system, without « pro-