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274 likely to have full confidence in professions which do not reciprocally confide in each other.

It is not denied that clergymen, as well as other men, have a perfect right to choose their own physicians, and in their own families give their preference to whatever mode of practice they may select; but when they endeavor to bring their official influence to bear upon the subject, and strive with all their might to overthrow the established system of rational medicine, and to encourage, support and advance some empirical scheme, we think that such a course is reprehensible. With the great body of clergymen, perhaps, we have little cause of complaint; yet it is not uncommon to see individuals of that class engaged in war against the established system of medicine, and aiding and abetting some nefarious quackery. All the knowledge that the labors and observations of two thousand years have accumulated is set at naught as worthless, and they lend all their influence to the support of some new and false scheme. They are often known to make the most strenuous exertions to overthrow what they choose to call the old school