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Rh the incumbent has a full library, we may see upon his shelf Hahnemann's Organon, his Lesser Writings, Jahr's Manual, and perhaps the works of Laurie, Hull, Hering, Possart, Pulte, Teste, Emma Cote, and perhaps others of the same sort. Now a good medical library is as indispensable for a physician, as a law library is for an attorney; they are absolutely necessary in both cases. But for any practical purpose, a physician might just as well have his desk furnished with such works as Roderick Random, Don Quixotte, Tales of Arabian Knights, Gil Blas, and Gulliver's Travels, as such works as we have noticed. Men of education and talents must, from the bottom of their hearts, loathe such nebulous bundles of attenuated nonsense, and in their practice they must often, almost unconsciously, leap over the narrow bounds of Homœopathy, and unless pecuniary considerations bind them too strongly to the harness, they will ere long commit its useless trappings to the winds, and stand aloof from the crazy car which a breath of reason must blow to atoms.

It is a common proverb, that one extreme