INFALLIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL THERAPEUTICS. 91 
the more shall we render it certain they form a natural or com- 
plete system, the best adapted for the relief of suffering humanity, 
when guided and enforced by the genius of enlightened medical 
men ; and, to prove this, I will refer to some remarkable cases 
I shall hereafter report, and to the principal points of my 
memoirs. 
I also propose to point out the absolute necessity, not only 
of giving tangible doses of medicines, and varrying them ac- 
cording to the intensity or chronicityof the case, but also many 
other points more closely connected with the system of natural 
therapeutics, which I have inferred from the labours of my ex- 
cellent instructors, and the observations of my own practice, — 
assuredly a very large and successful one. 
But, before entering into the parallel between the facts col- 
lected by the incomplete allopaths, as well as by the infinite- 
simal practitioners, and between the facts produced by the 
complete or philosophic therapeutics, may I be allowed to offer 
a friendly advice to the medical youth, the rising generation, 
upon whom all must look with so much interest, wishing it 
may be received with the same goodwill and sympathy with 
which it is given. 
The young practitioners of the present day begin with much 
eagerness to labour in the immense quarry of practical science, 
ardent for praise, and thirsting for fame ; hardly have they passed 
their examinations, or published a few observations in the medi- 
cal reviews, than they believe themselves to have reached the 
summit of their own wishes, and are astonished that their re- 
putation does not answer to their merits, which are very often 
great. Sometimes they complain of the blindness of the world, 
sometimes of the injustice, not perceiving that opportunity 
is, perhaps, wanting, so that public opinion, so occupied in a 
thousand ways, cannot declare itself but in the lapse of time. 
They ought also to understand, that it is not sufficient for the 
wine-grower to have made good wine, but that it is quite indis- 
pensable to let it so perfect itself by degrees, until, having ma- 
tured a proper length of time and become as palatable and as 
restorative as possible, it will undoubtedly be sought for, and 
very liberally valued by the best connoisseurs among the 
public. 
Let, then, our young fellow-labourers wait with patience, nor 
weary in expecting the harvest which they will undoubtedly 
gather in continuing their labours, and especially their studies, 
in the inexhaustible book of nature ; for at a time and upon a 
stage like the present, it is not enough to act properly, but we 
must endeavour to do still better, progressively. It is but by 
renewed efforts and repeated successes, that any can raise him- 
