522 THE MOUNTAIN. 



and, in the slumber-draught of her charmed goblet, with the 

 angels of faith and hope watching over it, it must come 

 that the body will be deserted by its ills, they being finally 

 expelled by the conservative life-forces which originally build 

 it up with miraculous architecture out of the wheat field 

 and the orchard. Dream on, sorrowful dreamer, there may 

 be healing in your dreams. Believe in your brother man 

 even if he does delude you with a song, for, according to 

 an ancient formula, there is salvation in faith alone. There 

 is one other aspect in which homeopathy, unfortunately for 

 itself, is valuable to the world and the profession, namely, as 

 an indorsement of the Old School of medicine itself. Whole- 

 sale drugging has long since been abandoned by sensible 

 men ; but the rational, judicious, and intelligent administra- 

 tion of medicine is an art indorsed by science. 



These homeopathic worthies have discovered no new 

 drugs or elements of materia medica, but, by an astonishing 

 coincidence, have adopted the old substances in toto, only 

 using them microscopically, and after the new law of like 

 curing like, at the same time retaining their faith in the 

 accredited dragon forces of the world; and, unless those 

 scoundrels the druggists slander them foully, they still, not- 

 withstanding their twaddle about infinitesimals, drive the 

 venerable stage horses in the same style that the regular 

 profession have been in the habit of driving them. 



Secondly, that Hydropathy, maugre its impertinence and 

 affectation in calling itself a medical system, particularly 

 cure, and especially new system, has done one thing for the 

 good of humanity, namely, assisted somewhat in the exalta- 

 tion of water to the position of one of the most beneficent 

 gifts of the supernals. Cleanliness being really a species of 

 holiness, water, an element high in the catalogue of the 

 good things of the Lord, may, in divers applications to dirty, 

 jaded, and gone bodies, to burnt-out crucibles and fire-eaten 

 bread-baskets of stomachs, accompanied with brandy-boiled 

 brains, and nerves corroded with intensity of galvanic action, 

 in short, that have grown diseased, and are paying the pen- 

 alties of sin in a medium of sensuality and luxury in dif- 



