DR. F. MAQENDIE. 



This celebrated physician and author, in one of his published 

 lectures, writes : When I was chief physician at Hotel Dieu Hos- 

 pital, Paris, some 3,500 patients passed through my hands during 

 a year. Before my term expired I tried the experiment of giving 

 one-half of the patients that were then present no medicines at all ; 

 the rest the usual medical treatment. The former w ere given, in- 

 stead, only what is known as " Food and Home Remedies," and, to 

 my unbounded surprise, they ALL got well not a single death ; 

 while among those receiving medical treatment the customary num- 

 ber of deaths occurred. A second trial yielded a like result, and I 

 was converted. Ever since I have given but little medicine to my 

 patients. 220 



