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Most kinds of quackery are wont to boast of their success abroad. We are continually told that Homœopathy is patronized to a great extent in Europe. That such is not the case, has already been shown by statistical reports. The following extract is taken from the Encyclopœdia Britannica, which all must acknowledge is high authority.

Of late years a class of practitioners has arisen, which, in so far as it is constituted of persons 'duly qualified' may be designated sectarian; nevertheless, it is made up for the most part of charlatans. It comprises those who, whether duly qualified or not, practise medicine upon the basis of some exclusive dogma or principle, or with reference to some exclusive remedial agent. Legitimate medicine is catholic and eclectic; it has neither exclusive dogmas nor creeds; it requires its members to seek