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133 and confusion which Hahnemann spread around, a clearer light may shine upon the path of medical practice. Henceforth the physician will lay a gentler hand upon his patient, and pursue a more expectant course. The public may not require physicians less, but will demand less of them in the way of positive medication. Hahnemann came, not as he and his followers supposed, to lay the foundation of a new and durable system of medicine, nor to prostrate and crush the old, and hurl into oblivion the fruits of all past experience—not to gain anything for himself or his followers—but, unwittingly and unwillingly, to labor through a long life in aid of that very system that he wished to overthrow and demolish. And when every vestige of Hahnemannism shall have passed away "as the baseless fabric of a vision," and his name shall be coupled with that of Paracelsus—when the Organon shall have no more authority than Arabian Tales—even then, mankind may be indirectly benefited by this ineffable delusion.