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Rh in judgment upon all medical means, and schemes, and proceed to select the right from the wrong, and the true from the false. As well might a blind man undertake to select the finest pictures from a promiscuous number of paintings. The idea is preposterous—no man can be a competent judge in any department of business or science with which he is not thoroughly acquainted; and if without such knowledge he attempts to make selections, he is quite as likely to do wrong as right, and is ever unreliable. Eclecticism is a kind of coat of many colors, which the wearers seem to suppose should please everybody. Like some politicians, they love all the dear people, and are in favor of all parties, and like them they deserve the confidence of none.

There are some practitioners, who, although they are not professedly eclectic, yet endeavor to ride two or more hobbies at the same time. They can practise "both ways," or several ways, and ask the patient to indicate the method by which he will be treated—'tis all the same to them—they only wish to know just what the patient wants, and they are ready to do his