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158 made to introduce it among the clergy and titled nobility, and it was tried in hospitals. Homœopathic practitioners increased faster than their patients, and resort was had to free dispensaries as a means of increasing the number of patients, and giving publicity to that mode of practice. Unremitting exertions were made to introduce Homœopathy into every nook and corner where it might possibly gain vitality.

And what is the result of thirty or forty years' labor in that cause? Great Britain is supposed to contain about thirty millions of inhabitants, and the whole number of regular physicians cannot be less than thirty thousand. The number of homœopathic practitioners, all told, according to their own showing, is just two hundred and thirty, and it is believed that a considerable deduction might be made from that small number. But taking their own statement to be correct, there are at the present time, in Great Britain, about eight homœopathic practitioners to every thousand regular physicians. And with these statistics staring us in the face, we are told that Homœopathy is in a very prosperous condition