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Great Britain, when any particular kind of quackery gains a temporary ascendancy over others, it is said to wear the bell. Although we have no authority to settle questions of rank in that army, I suppose no one will object to placing Homœopathy at the head of the regiment for a single review; and if, after sundry marches and counter-marches, this company shall be found at the other extremity of the regiment, no one need be disappointed. has been called the founder of this sect. He was born at a place called Messein, in Upper Saxony, in 1755, and graduated at the Medical School at Leipsic at the early age of 20. During his pupilage he seems to have imbibed a strong dislike to the profession, and instead of engaging in the practice of medicine after his graduation, he employed his time in translating several German