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self above the crowd : medical reputation cannot be acquired in 
any other way, and it is quite impossible for a man to be happy 
if he forget that the law of labour is the holy law of humanity, 
and that this law, like all those established by our Divine 
Creator, is best adapted for insuring his health, his greatest 
satisfaction, or the prosperity of his own family, which is in- 
separable from his own happiness. 
Also, let my young friends beware, and take the greatest care 
not to adopt too easily doctrines or systems not derived from, or 
not founded on Nature, which will be found too frequently 
rejected both by Nature and experience. Nothing is easier, 
when endowed with any degree of imagination, than to lose 
oneself in monstrous dreams, to strain facts, to exaggerate 
every thing. And now-a-days there are so many and such active 
imaginations incessantly at work, it is, I think, no small dis- 
tinction and advantage when one is found faithful to the Hip- 
pocratic traditions ; or, in other words, to the first, truthful, 
simple lessons of Nature delivered to men of genius ; following 
them, however, not with servility and bigotry, but as a sure 
beacon and safeguard to modern explorers in the paths of science. 
I do not fear being taxed wrth prolixity for these exhortations. 
Never were they so much needed as now ; never were nature 
and truth so outraged as they are by the systematisers of the 
present day. O Hippocrates, and ye, his worthy disciples, from 
whose rich stores I have drawn in such abundance the manna 
of sound doctrine, accept here the humble but most earnest 
tribute of gratitude and respect of an ardent and admiring fol- 
lower, whose chief wish and aim in life is to do homage to your 
genius, and rejoice your noble souls, by labouring unceasingly 
to compel a universal acknowledgment of those divine thera- 
peutic truths which you discovered and taught. 
Med. Times , Wth January , 1851. 
HOMOEOPATHY. 
** Diseases are sometimes cured by remedies capable of producing an analogous 
affection.’' Hippocrates. 
i( Take thou some new infection to the eye, 
And the rank poison of the old will die.” Shakespeare. 
“ Similia similibus curantur.” Hahnemann. 
There is but a step between the sublime and the ridiculous. 
The philosopher and the quack alike profess to elucidate truth ; 
but there is this distinction between their methods of proceed- 
