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162 Homœopathy has become extinct; and like the smoke of the witch fires which two centuries ago darkened the atmosphere of those regions, the delusion of Homœopathy has wholly passed away. Vienna, with a population of five hundred thousand, and the largest hospital in the world, has more than five hundred educated physicians, and not more than thirty homœopathic practitioners, and this small number is constantly diminishing. The whole of Germany, Switzerland, and Northern Italy, with a population of forty-one millions, and having forty thousand educated physicians, claims to have four hundred and thirty-nine homœopathic practitioners. Yet among all that number there is not a single eminent man, and very few who are in any way respectable. The number of under-graduates that are annually matriculated at the regular medical schools in Germany, is on an average about twenty thousand.

We are told that the French Empress favors Homœopathy: but we happen to know that her attending physician is no other than Baron Paul Dubois, one of the most splendid and most