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164 of regular physicians who were informed of the circumstances of the case, that the Emperor might have been saved by proper efficient treatment. His son, the present Emperor Alexander, soon after he came to the throne, published an imperial edict, banishing forever from all his dominions Homœopathy and all other kinds of quackery, so that now not a single irregular practitioner can be found in all the vast dominions of Russia. This is certainly no very flattering compliment to Homœopathy.

This, then, is the condition of that system of medicine which its advocates say is everywhere rapidly increasing. This is the proud condition to which Homœopathy has attained in the first half century of its history.

The last Homœopathic hospital in England died a natural death last spring. The following is from the London Lancet:—"The last hospital devoted to this delusion in London has closed its doors. It has dwindled down into a 'temporary office' and a 'dispensary for out patients.' We hear much of the success of Homœopathy, and yet the friends of the humbug cannot