of the ROYAL TOUCH and the UNGUENTUM ARMARIUM) that this explanation
was sufficiently disproved by the fact of numerous and successful cures
which had been witnessed in infants and brute animals. Dr. Haygarth
replied to this, that "in these cases it is not the Patient, but the
Observer, who is deceived by his own imagination," and that such may be
the fact, we have seen in the case of the good lady who thought she had
conjured away the spot from her friend's countenance, when it remained
just as before.

As to the motives of the inventor and vender of the Tractors, the facts
must be allowed to speak for themselves. But when two little bits of
brass and iron are patented, as an invention, as the result of numerous
experiments, when people are led, or even allowed, to infer that they
are a peculiar compound, when they are artfully associated with a new
and brilliant discovery (which then happened to be Galvanism), when they
are sold at many hundred times their value, and the seller prints his
opinion that a Hospital will suffer inconvenience, "unless it possesses
many sets of the Tractors, and these placed in the hands of the patients
to practise on each other," one cannot but suspect that they were
contrived in the neighborhood of a wooden nutmeg factory; that legs of
ham in that region are not made of the best mahogany; and that such as
buy their cucumber seed in that vicinity have to wait for the fruit as
long as the Indians for their crop of gunpowder.

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The succeeding lecture will be devoted to an examination of the
doctrines of Samuel Hahnemann and his disciples; doctrines which some
consider new and others old; the common title of which is variously
known as Ho-moeopathy, Homoe-op-athy, Homoeo-paith-y, or Hom'pathy, and
the claims of which are considered by some as infinitely important, and
by many as immeasurably ridiculous.

I wish to state, for the sake of any who may be interested in the
subject, that I shall treat it, not by ridicule, but by argument;
perhaps with great freedom, but with good temper and in peaceable
language; with very little hope of reclaiming converts, with no desire
of making enemies, but with a firm belief that its pretensions and
assertions cannot stand before a single hour of calm investigation.

II.

It may be thought that a direct attack upon the pretensions of
HOMOEOPATHY is an uncalled-for aggression upon an unoffending doctrine
and its p