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By such deceptions many a poor man has 

 expended all he has saved, by coming to 

 London in the futile hope of cure, but the 

 majority have been told theirs is a description 

 that the miraculous remedy cannot touch. The 

 aurist instead of being execrated for his deception 

 is lauded for his candour in stating the in- 

 utility of his remedy. No thanks to him ; he 

 well knovrs if he applied it in cases where he 

 knows it would fail (and these cases are perhaps 

 eight in ten) his empiricism would soon get wind, 

 and his deception be exposed. On going to him 

 you may be told that no one could suppose 

 his remedy would cure all deafness, no man of 

 sense would believe it; but his advertisement 

 leads any one to suppose it would, and all 

 people are not persons of sense. If his adver- 

 tisement merely stated that in certain descrip- 

 tions of deafness it had effected a cure, a man 

 would only have (if he could) to ascertain whether 

 his malady was of a kind likely to yield to 



