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those benighted nations, are permitted to depress the strength, are soon 

 and safely brought to an artificial crisis, since Sir George Fovclyce has 

 established the agency of antimony ? How many catarrhs, and instan- 

 ces of catarrhal consumption have now no fatal issue, since Laeunec's 

 practice has been adopted ? How shall we duly estimate the instrumen- 

 tality of Lady Wortly Montague and Jenner ? We have no records of 

 the supposed ravages of small pox among the millions of Asia. We 

 can trace it only to the seige of Mecca jn the year 572, when it des- 

 troyed an invading army. Subsequently it followed the Arabs and Sar- 

 acens in their successful western expedition, and afflicted Spain, Sicily, 

 Italy, France, and then the entire globe, causing a general mortality of 

 25 per ct. of the human family. How different now! That once fear- 

 ful disease is now, by means of inoculation and vaccination, as fearlessly 

 met by a physician as would Franklin the forked lightning with iiis poin- 

 ted rod, and Davy, with his safely lamp, the fatal damps of tlie coal-pits. 

 Nothing, perhaps, can better exemplify the position in question than the 

 following fact. In the year 1837 the small pox broke out in the Eastern 

 State Penitentiary, and only 2 of 80 cases of the disease died, whereas 

 among the Indian tribes of the Ftocky mountains attacked with the dis- 

 ease about the same time, scarcely 2 of 80 survived." 



Numerous other facts are advanced to show the great power of the 

 healing art — the real advance made by medical science in counteracting 

 the effects of nosopoietic causes. 



There is, there has been too much scepticism in the world on this 

 subject. Justice has not been rendered to medical science in the esti- 

 mate made of it. Empiricism has received entirely too much favor 

 amongst men. It is time that quackery should be banisiied from Society 

 and that the learned, honorable, and highly useful profession of Medi- 

 cine should obtain its place high in the respect, and contldence of the 

 community. 



We have left but little space for Dr. Grant. Anatomy and Physiol- 

 ogy are the topics of the Dr's. lecture. Their importance, their abso- 

 lute necessity as a part of medical education are cleaily shown. They 

 are "at the very foundation of all medical knowledge ; neglect them, and 

 empiricism in all its forms and varieties, will be re-enthroned, bringing 

 in its train the folly and absurdity, danger and ruin, which make quack- 

 ery so hateful and wicked." 



There is nothing that has been viewed by us in these lectures with 

 more satisfaction tlian the high moral tone which pervades them, and 

 the sincere homage which they pay to revealed trudi. 



Says our lecturer, "To him who loves to contemplate the wisdom 



