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280 his children to treat other men with insolence and rudeness, but he will most likely in his turn be obliged to brook the same kind of disrespect. So a clergyman may manifest an entire want of confidence in the medical profession, but he will be likely to find the same spirit of unbelief creeping in to his own province. He may aim a blow against that profession, but it will eventually recoil, with redoubled force, upon himself and the cause in which he is engaged.

It is not pretended that every man with a diploma in his pocket is deserving of implicit confidence, nor that all the members of this profession are all that they should be. Too many have been but imperfectly educated; the opportunities of too many have been insufficient; too many are by nature illy adapted to its delicate and responsible offices—and far too many neglect to improve themselves and keep pace with the onward progress of the science. Full perfection cannot be expected anywhere. Yet, with some exceptions, the great body of regular physicians are learned and worthy men, among whom may always be found those of the highest order of