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132 obtained in the dark ages two thousand years before.

And yet, after all, perhaps Hahnemann did not live wholly in vain. Although not actually a messenger from Heaven in the light by which he was sometimes regarded by his disciples, he seems nevertheless to have had an important mission indirectly to accomplish. Through the use of his empty and inert means, we have been enabled to see what the innate powers of the animal organization can accomplish without medical interference. We have been taught to rely more upon these, and less upon art, and have seen the wonderful influence which the mind has over the bodily functions. Although Hahnemann made no direct improvements in medicine—although he made no reliable discoveries, and established no sound principles—although his whole scheme, with all its details, is frail as a spider's web, and must fall to atoms and be blown away by the wind—yet indirectly it may tend to enforce important truths. Henceforth the physician will look more carefully to the recuperative energies of nature, and from the