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320 the term of pupilage, and require a more thorough course of clinical instruction in order to protect society from empiricism "within as well as without the profession; they demand the highest moral standard, a standard that shall exclude all profanity and dishonesty, a standard that shall resemble in purity the mountain snow, and in firmness the mountain adamant.

The advocates of every new empirical scheme have always indulged the false hope that their system was soon to supersede all others. So said the ancient quacks, and so say the moderns. More than forty years ago the disciples of Hahnemann asserted that in a very few years the entire system of regular medicine would be overthrown and superseded by homœopathy; and the same prediction has been continually reiterated by its advocates ever since. And how have these predictions been verified? Has the regular system of rational medicine—the system which quacks delight to call the old system—faltered and declined, or showed signs of decay, during any time past? Far otherwise. Her numbers and resources, her means of