alo Medical and Surgical Journal_ (old school)
had a sudden spasm of good sense--a condition none too frequent with
our Allopathic brethren, and during the attack, allowed the following
communication to appear in the pages of his journal.

_To the Editor of the Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal_:

It will be to the advantage of the regular medical profession
to go carefully over their treatment of the class of
physicians who have seen fit to denominate themselves
hom[oe]opathic, and to observe the effect such treatment
has had upon the profession itself, upon the public and upon
hom[oe]opathy.

That the accumulated experience of faithful observers, who,
for the last four thousand years have given their lives to
the study and treatment of diseases, is, we believe, of almost
invaluable importance to one who wishes to become a physician,
and certainly is of infinite importance when compared with
a hypothetical dogma, and yet, with all the machinery of
our hospitals and dispensaries, the control of every medical
appointment in the gift of governments or corporations, with
our medical schools perfectly equipped with professors for
every separate department of medicine, and an entire monopoly
of the advantages of clinical observations, with all these
advantages and precedents, what headway have we made in
convincing the public and individuals of our superior ability
to manage disease, or of our peculiar fitness for becoming the
sanitary officers of households or communities?

The line of treatment which the regular profession saw fit to
adopt in the earliest days of hom[oe]opathy, and which they
are still following, is generally bigoted, and universally
intolerant opposition. What is the effect of this opposition?
It is to arouse in the public mind that generous American
sentiment which ever asserts itself to see fair play between
a big boy and a little one. There is scarcely an instance
in which the regular profession, with all its accumulated
prestige, has arrayed itself against hom[oe]opathy, where the
weaker party have not prevailed. And to-day, in the sight of
the law, and in the confidence of the people, hom[oe]opathy is
the peer of regular medicine.

It becomes us to go over this case, and, if possible, discover
why, we so strong in numbers, and in all the facilities and