enlighten their minds on the subject. They will always be disposed to listen to, and to believe, the histories of the marvellous cures of hysterical affections; and with them Conjurors of all kinds, from Prince Hohenlohe and the Professors of animal magnetism, down to the most vulgar impostors will always be the successful rivals of those Practitioners who have studied their profession as a Science. - SIR B. BRODIE, Lectures Illustrative of Nervous Affections. Works, iii. 197.

Were the miraculous cures of the Savior, who sighed over the case of the deaf-mute, performed on cases or in diseases that art, either then or now, could have remedied? Could remedial agents, or man's interference, have raised the dead, thrown instantaneously the vigor of youth, and the health and strength of manhood, into the limbs of the cripple,-given power to the paralytic, steadiness to the palsied, and calmness to the possessed; or have cooled the fevered, given, by a word, sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, and hearing to the deaf? — If, without the special interference of Providence, these individuals could have been cured, then their cases were not miracles, and can not now be performed but by similar means. - SIR W. R. WILDE, Aural Surgery, ch. i.

There are many men who are unwilling to listen to half-a-dozen sentences, while there is scarcely any fallacy which they will not believe if it is told them in one.-T. G. FONNEREAU,

Diary of a Dutiful Son; Quarterly Review, vol. lxxxvi, p. 451.

It may be long, indeed, before any amount of ability or zeal on the part of the Professors in those departments, can elevate Oxford to the same eminence in Science which it possesses in Literature; but at any rate we need not despair of disseminating such an amount of general information on these subjects, as should prevent the occurrence amongst us of that blind credulity in the most extravagant impostures, and the most absurd delusions. which is too often seen connected with cultivated literary tastes, and understandings in many respects enlightened.-C. DAUBENY, M.D., Can Physical Science obtain a home in an English University?

It is to the almost entire ignorance of the public, and especially of the aristocratic classes, as to the evidence which is necessary to establish the efficacy or inefficacy of a particular mode of treatment, that we are to attribute the reputation which is frequently obtained by empirics and other adventurers, who pretend to practise the Art, without having learned the Science, of Medicine.- SIR B. BRODIE, The Studies required for the Medical Profession. 1846.

Credulity has never yet shown itself affected by argument; and a system which rests on no principle but the principle that there are many people always ready to be deceived by a boldlysustained imposture, and which has no rule of

practice really adhered to by its disciples, is not likely to suffer much from the most logical demonstration of its falseness. Medicine is concerned with matters which are so uncertain, and of which the general public are so utterly ignorant, that it is hopeless, we fear, to expect to get rid of unfounded pretensions on the one side, and credulity on the other, until science and scientific education have made much greater progress.Westminster Review, quoted in Med. Times and Gaz., 3 Nov. 1866.

The Medical Profession, while human nature continues to be such as it is now, and always has been, can never meet the demands which are made upon it. That men are born to die; that the power of giving relief is limited; that many diseases must prove fatal in defiance of all remedies; that other diseases, though not of a fatal tendency, may be incurable, no one will doubt the truth of these as general propositions : but the individual who labors under the inflictions of disease will always indulge himself in the hope that he is at any rate safe on the present occasion, and that the time is not yet come when he can derive no benefit from art. *** Where the resources of skill and science fail, the instinct of self-preservation will lead many sufferers to look for other aid; and the honest and well-educated Practitioner will always have to contend not only with the St. John Longs of the day, but with those among his own brethren

who do not partake of his anxiety to avoid making promises which can not be fulfilled. Quarterly Review, vol. lxvii, p. 57.

I know for certain that there are remedies for most ills; but I am not so sure that there are good Physicians to administer them when necessary. — LE SAGE, Asmodeus, ch. iii.

How strange to add, in this nefarious trade, that men of parts are dupes by dunces made.

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Troubled with something in your bile or blood, you think your Doctor does you little good.CRABBE, The Borough, Letter vii.

No man chooses to be scrupulous in the moment of danger.-G. STEEVENS, Works of Hogarth, vol. i, p. 492.

The loud tongue of ignorance impudently promises much, and the ear of the sick is open. STERNE, Sermons, xxxv.

For (as a learned Divine of our times sayth of Witches, one sort of empirics) they do so dote upon them, that though she fail in 20 things, yet if she do but some one thing aright, and that very small, the world loveth her, and commendeth her for a good and wise woman: but the Physician, if he work 600 cures, yet if through the waywardness of his Patient, or the punishment of his Patient's sin, he fail but in one, that one fail doth turn more to his discredit, than his manifold goodly and notable cures do get him praise. — Health's Preservative, by E.D., DOCTOR OF PHYSIC, 1606.

One success bears out many failures; for failures imply the absence of notable incidents, and having nothing to arrest attention are quickly forgotten; while the wonders of a success take hold of the mind and live in the memory.- Quarterly Review, vol. lxxxv, p. 370.

There is no body of doctrine, and no system of conduct so liable as that of the Physician, to be invaded by superstitious terrors, and to be made the sport of a feeble credulity. - SIR JAMES STEPHEN, Address, St. Mary's Hospital, June 1858.

The conflict of Science and systematized experience with quackery, of the liberal cultivator of Science with the contraband trader in nostrums and stolen fragments of knowlege, will, I fear, endure as long as physical or moral infirmity place men in those states which eminently favor the predominance of hope, fear, and credulity over reason and judgement.-J. H. GREEN, Hunterian Oration, 1847.

What signifies learning, or going to school, when a Woman can do, without reason or rule, what puts you to non-plus, and baffles your Art? for petticoat practice has now got the start.

In physics, as well as in fashions, we find the newest has always the run with mankind; forgot is the bustle 'bout Taylor and Ward; now Mapp's all the cry, and her fame's on record. Dame Nature has given her a Doctor's degree, she gets all the Patients, and pockets the fee;