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Rh being learned in the science of law, they are incompetent, and their opinions are worth nothing; such questions must be settled by lawyers and civilians.

Now Homœopathy does not gain proselytes by teaching its true principles. Such a course would be suicidal, and soon exterminate the sect; but it is propagated by other means. It is obvious that the public are always desirous for something new in every department of science and business. They see that all the means which have hitherto been employed for the restoration of the sick, often fail; the healing art is acknowledged to be imperfect; the sick bed, with all its medical appliances, is a subject of dread. Every one would prefer to be treated by remedies more agreeable and more sure, and Homœopathy, like every other species of quackery, promises all this. It points to the improvements that are continually being made in mechanics, and beguiles the patient with the notion that Homœopathy is a new discovery, which compares with regular medicine as the most perfect machine does with the rudest ancient