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230 quite respectable men who belong to this class. Then these men are in poor company. Why do they not pursue an honorable course, instead of giving their countenance and support to a class of practitioners who they must know are every way incompetent and unworthy? Why place themselves at the head of a column of such detestable recruits? If they bear the name of Alexander, they should endeavor to conduct like him.

As has been already stated, eclectics profess to compile their system of therapeutics by selecting from all the medical schemes in vogue such things as they believe to be proper; that is, they take a portion from scientific medicine, another portion from Thomsonism, another from Homœopathy, another from Hydropathy, another from Isopathy, another from Chrono-Thermalism; and so go on to select, from every variety of quackery, something to make a kind of bouquet, which they appear to think should be agreeable to all classes. But how, and by whom, is the selection to be made? Men who are profoundly ignorant of medical science, sit