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Rh Hahnemann had not been long in Paris before a crowd of aspirants gathered around him, anxious to borrow his thunder. Medical writings, based upon Hahnemann's written and oral teachings, soon made their appearance. So anxious were the new converts to be first in the race, that in a short time quite a large number of homœopathic works had been written in the French language. Many of these were soon translated into other languages, and in a short time the advocates of this new scheme, book in hand, ransacked all Europe. Everywhere all learned and competent judges rejected it as a tissue of ridiculous absurdities; yet the ignorant and unthinking were sometimes made to believe, and men of indifferent attainments, itching for notoriety, often became its advocates.

At length Europe became sparsely dotted over with messengers of the prophet; everywhere its introduction and trial was urged with a zeal deserving a better cause: but whenever and wherever it was fairly examined and tested, it always failed. Its advocates repeated their efforts, and always, when the truth was known, with the same