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c which had hitherto occupied the minds of men, and been 
tested and confirmed by the experience of ages; 5 and that 
these doctrines were not fundamentally and entirely opposed 
to the established system in its principles and practice. 
Homoeopathists fortified the belief of the public in this mis- 
conception, by pointing to the fact that they possessed the 
same medical licenses and degrees, and belonged to the same 
medical colleges, societies, &c., as the practitioners of legiti- 
mate medicine. 
“Long, and as I conceive properly, the common law of 
England and Scotland has been such as to allow British 
subjects the most perfect freedom as to patronizing or prac- 
tising any form whatever of medical superstition and preten- 
sion ; and the late resolutions of our medical corporations and 
societies were not therefore intended to interfere in any 
degree with homoeopathists continuing to treat all those who 
applied to them, according to their own peculiar creed. But 
the resolutions were intended to show that the differences 
between the doctrines and practices of legitimate physicians, 
and the doctrines and practices of homoeopathists, were so 
great as to render any farther intercourse and co-operation 
between them impossible in the conduct of professional mat- 
ters, and in the duties of professional life. Indeed, Hahne- 
mann himself had long before pronounced precisely a similar 
opinion regarding the proper relations of homoeopathists to 
legitimate practitioners, and the impossibility of the disciples 
of homoeopathy countenancing the doctrines and practices of 
legitimate physicians, or as he opprobriously and foolishly 
styled them — f allopaths. 5 55 — Homoeopathy : its Tenets and Ten - 
dencies. By T. Y. Simpson. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JUNE 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere auaeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
The General Meeting of the Members of the Veterinary 
Profession for the year 1853, followed by what now seems to 
be established as its usual sequel, the dinner to the Pre- 
sident, of both of which accounts will be found in our pages 
for the present month, appear to have passed off, if not with 
any incident calling for special notice, at least with as much 
satisfaction and eclat as ordinarily accompanies such reunions. 
