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Rh or Morison's pills; or itinerant practitioners of Homœopathy, Mesmerism, &c. The ranks of the quacks are also swelled by outcasts from the legitimate profession: men who are excommunicated either because of their vices or of their follies, and who have been morally punished by a de facto deprivation of professional intercourse with their brethren. In the third class of amateurs and others are comprised country clergymen, ladies having a taste for medicine, persons in private station with a smattering of knowledge, but especially the retailers and compounders of drugs, and professed nurses. Those who, when young, have abandoned or neglected the study of medicine as a profession, and have been led to follow other pursuits, are particularly apt to take up the irregular practice of it in after life."

We believe there is no public hospital in the world where Homœopathy is employed or allowed. In Paris, Hahnemann's adopted city, there are twenty-six public hospitals, having in all about eighteen thousand beds, and the London hospitals are supposed to contain at least twenty-five thousand, whilst Vienna has the largest number of free beds of any single