and its Economic Management. 435 
, thing,” he replied, “if you call one in it is very uncertain if 
he will do you any good, but it is quite certain you will 
have to pay him.” 
Where one has no knowledge of his own anatomy, and 
no confidence in himself, of course he feels he must rely 
upon the medical practitioner; and it is better that he 
should do that than to drug himself. Again, there is of 
course a great responsibility incurred in serious cases of 
illness where a doctor is not called in, as whether he is 
right or wrong, the law upholds his profession, and forces 
it upon those who are convinced that his practice is 
founded upon shifting sands which frequently engulf both 
his patient, and at the same time his faith in his own 
methods of treatment. 
Lifting the Veil. 
Dear reader, have you ever read Smedley’s book on 
the Hydropathic treatment? If not, then you can get it 
from Smedley’s Institute, at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire ; 
where hundreds of medical men have gone to regain that 
strength, and a new life, which their own medicines have 
failed to restore to them. Yes, and patients by the 
thousand which they have failed to cure, have been able 
to return from Matlock as from death, unto blessed health 
and life. 
Under the heading “Medical Facts,” some startling 
statements were made by Dr. Tyrrell in Gleanzngs for 
November Ist, 1890, page 774. “JI used to think,” said he, 
“and am now of the same opinion, that the science of 
medicine . . . . was the root of more evil, suffering, 
and death, than all other evils combined.” 
“An old doctor of the ‘ regular faculty’ told me that he 
did not know that he ever cured a patient, and said that 
he knew he had killed some, but not intentionally.” 
