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Rh medicine which they pretend so much to despise. Homoeopathy itself is as destitute of all truth and of everything that is valuable, as Sahara is of herbage. In itself, it is a boundless desert; without a single oasis—having neither flowers, nor fruits, nor springs of water, to refresh the fainting traveller.

If it is still insisted that the number and respectability of the supporters of Homœopathy are proofs in its favor, we might urge, with much more propriety, the truth of Divination, Sorcery and Witchcraft. The believers in these delusions have been far more numerous, and their attestations far more imposing. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, all Europe brooded over the doctrine of Witchcraft. All ranks and conditions of men, from the mitred prelate to the humblest cottager, and from the king upon the throne to the beggar at his gates, all were firm believers in this terrible infatuation. Judicial tribunals became courts of inquisition, and thousands of the innocent and unoffending were suspected to be guilty, and put to death. For more than two centuries, this monstrous delusion