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Rh of regular physicians. We know, too, that a few years ago an editor at Naples published a puff upon Homœopathy, and stated that the King favored it, and that he was thereupon arrested for libel and thrust into prison among criminals, from which he barely escaped with his life. There is not a single government in Europe where Homœopathy is held to be anything else than quackery, and it is believed that there are several other kinds of quackery which can count more advocates.

In 1855, the English homœopathists petitioned Lord Panmure to be allowed to take charge of one of the hospitals in the Crimea. His Lordship, in reply, informed the applicants, that although medical service there was very much needed, he could never think of employing them, as their pretensions were so false.

Homœopathy has always strove to insinuate itself among the nobility, and to gain favor with crowned heads. One or more practitioners of that kind attended the late Emperor of Russia in his last sickness; and of this, Homœopathy did not forget to boast. But it was the opinion