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At the earnest entreaty of the patient and her friends. Dr. K. was 

 induced to administer the remedy previously prescribed by Dr. Sieg- 

 el. In half an hour a quiet sleep came on, and in three hours the 

 patient awoke refreshed and relieved from all symptoms of disease. 

 She had no further relapse. After the first cure by Siegel, Kramer, 

 then a practitioner of forty years standing in the allopathic method, 

 refused to admit that the eradication of the disease was owing to the 

 homoeopathic remedies : but the termination of the case — for the 

 details of which we must refer to the work itself — " was the means 

 of entirely changing Dr. Kramer's views in regard to the worth of 

 Homoeopathy, which he has since practised with increasing confi- 

 dence and success." 



In conclusion, we must confer the most unqualified praise on the 

 manner in which Dr. Simpson has executed his task. The volume 

 is not too long, or too dry and technical to fatigue any reader ; the 

 style is simple, modest, unafiected.. and well suited to the subject ; 

 the author maintains his temper throughout, does justice to every 

 class of practitioners, of whatever sect, commends where commenda- 

 tion is due, and never fails to expose the absurdities and exaggera- 

 tions of even the homoeopathists, wherever they occur. He gives 

 the results of the labours of others, confirmed by his own experi- 

 ence ; and we think that the system is here proved beyond a doubt 

 to be of such incalculable benefit to the human race, that no one, 

 having given the book an impartial perusal, and who was not blind- 

 ed by prejudice, would again trust his health and his life in the 

 hands of an allopathic doctor, when so infinitely less tedious, irk- 

 some, and expensive a means of cure is at hand. The volume con- 

 cludes with a long list of works and periodicals, published on the 

 continent, for and against the system. The doctrine appears to be 

 rapidly gaining ground in Germany, and we understand that Paris 

 boasts of a Homoeopathic Society, consisting of thirty physicians 

 practising according to the improved method. Its slow progress in 

 England is chiefly to be attributed to the hitherto too successful 

 opposition of the profession, and to the blind reliance of individuals 

 and families on the interested verdict of their doctor. There are, 

 however, several physicians practising Homoeopathy in England ; 

 and it is sincerely to be hoped that the Practical View of Dr. 

 Simpson will set the matter in its proper light, and induce the 

 public to make a trial of the system vainly attempted to be repress- 

 ed by the practitioners of the old school. We fearlessly predict, 

 that, in the end, full justice will be done to Hahnemann's discovery; 

 and that when the public begin to perceive the importance of the 

 doctrine, the profession will find it their interest speedily to free 

 themselves from their trammels, and adopt the views of their employ- 

 ers. We ask our medical readers to institute an impartial investi- 

 gation of the homoeopathic principles, and either to publish ^myjacls 

 in refutation of them, or else to adopt them before they are co?n- 

 pelled to do so ; and they may rest assured that, sooner or later, the 

 matter will come to this crisis. 



