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interference of physicians, than are saved by their 

 assistance." 



Hence, many have lost all confidence in medicine; 

 for, the dark side (the defects of the art) cannot be 

 concealed from even the uninitiated. Lord Bacon* 

 says — " I will not deny that physicians of the present 

 day are indiflferently well acquainted with the general 

 symptoms of a disease ; but, either they do not right- 

 ly understand, or, h^ve not sufficiently examined the 

 medicines which they prescribe in particular cases. 

 The addition, diminution, and alteration of medi- 

 cines, in the most arbitrary manner, so that usually 

 one medicine is substituted for another, is quite a 

 common proceeding," 



Peter Frank, in his System of Medical Police^ 

 Vol, i. says, "It is strange that the government 

 should interfere only in time of epidemics and 

 against charlatans, whilst it takes no notice of the 

 thousands who are daily sacrific;ed in their solitary 

 chambers. Governments should determine either to 

 banish all physicians and their art, or, take measures 

 to render men's lives more secure than they are at 

 present." 



Confessions like these, by physicians themselVes, 

 are so numerous and so well known, as to render 

 more quotations unnecessary ; those which I have 

 given aflfording the most conclusive evidence of the 

 defectiveness and uncertainty of Allosopathic medical 

 science. 



It was, without doubt, the defects of the science 

 of healing as practised by the Alloeopathists, which 

 induced the immortal Hahnemann to embrace and 

 propagate the doctrine of similia similibus cur- 

 antur. 



