the "fingering slaves" that Wordsworth treats with such
shrivelling scorn. But it is well that the two callings have been
separated, and it is fitting that they remain apart. In settling the
affairs of the late concern, I am afraid our good friends remain a
little in our debt. We lent them our physician Michael Servetus in
fair condition, and they returned him so damaged by fire as to be quite
useless for our purposes. Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not
over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave
them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first
discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. Our John
Locke enlightened them with his letters concerning toleration; and their
Cotton Mather obscured our twilight with his "Nishmath Chajim."

Yet we must remember that the name of Basil Valentine, the monk, is
associated with whatever good and harm we can ascribe to antimony;
and that the most remarkable of our specifics long bore the name of
"Jesuit's Bark," from an old legend connected with its introduction.
"Frere Jacques," who taught the lithotomists of Paris, owes his
ecclesiastical title to courtesy, as he did not belong to a religious
order.

Medical science, and especially the study of mental disease, is
destined, I believe, to react to much greater advantage on the theology
of the future than theology has acted on medicine in the past. The
liberal spirit very generally prevailing in both professions, and the
good understanding between their most enlightened members, promise well
for the future of both in a community which holds every point of human
belief, every institution in human hands, and every word written in a
human dialect, open to free discussion today, to-morrow, and to the end
of time. Whether the world at large will ever be cured of trusting
to specifics as a substitute for observing the laws of health, and to
mechanical or intellectual formula as a substitute for character, may
admit of question. Quackery and idolatry are all but immortal.

We can find most of the old beliefs alive amongst us to-day, only having
changed their dresses and the social spheres in which they thrive.
We think the quarrels of Galenists and chemists belong to the past,
forgetting that Thomsonism has its numerous apostles in our community;
that it is common to see remedies vaunted as purely vegetable, and
that the prejudice against "mineral poisons," especially mercury,