137. ERR.} 
in a few hours, as when topically used: an opinion 
in which I see no good reason to acquiesce. The 
facts on which he founded his belief on this point 
stated. The medical application of these remedies, 
is circumscribed to a few affections, and those of a 
local or insulated character. Still cases may, and 
indeed I know they do occur, for I have met with 
them,in which errhines may advantageously be used 
with palliative if not curative effect. They are 
however, as I have remarked in the outset, nearly 
obsolete. In other words they are out of fashion, 
as indeed are many more important remedies, 
which have been pushed away from sight and use, 
by that rage for panaceas, that mania for quacks — 
engendered, fomented, and unhappily for science 
and the dignity and usefulness of the profession sus- 
tained—by the mania of some of its own distin-. 
guished members!!! 
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