We might have traced the effects of the apprentice system into the more covert sites of its operations, as exemplified in the abortive or mischievous legislation observed at different times in the College of Surgeons of London; or have extended the catalogue we formerly exposed as taking place in the Royal Med. and Chir. Society up to the influence—proh pudor!—that it is allowed to exert in the Councils of the Royal Society; but our so doing here would have led us into discussions which are irrelevant or unnecessary to our present objects. In the meantime, it is useful to remark that there are two sides to all questions. If, in our corporate bodies, we see the prurient appetencies of trade usurping the place of the lofty aspirations of science,—if we see this carried to the extent of men allowing themselves to receive money without rendering any intelligible account of its amount,—let us not forget that there is a Public—aye, and a Profession too—which calmly allows such things. Let us also reflect on those numerous instances, in human affairs, of things being only accomplished when there is a real necessity for them; and, again, whether that necessity for a higher and purer administration of corporate privileges and scientific distinctions may not alone reside in a higher and purer moral standard on the part of the public and the profession. Those who, in a worldly sense, suffer from the system, have at least the consolation that they are not obliged to participate in the administration of that which they disapprove; and that the losses they so sustain are perhaps necessary tests of their having achieved proper motives. No better proof of the sincerity and earnestness of our love of science can be afforded us, than a patient and thoughtful cultivation of it, independently of patronage, position, or other auxiliaries, which too often mask from us the true objects of research, sully the purity of mind by mixtures of questionable motive, or mislead us from the temple of truth to the altar of a fugitive and fallacious ambition. There are indeed signs of a "_Delenda est Carthago_." As we have said, the point of the wedge is inserted, and a very little extension of public information will at no distant period drive it home. In the meantime, Medical Science, instead of being in a position to receive every quackery as a means of demonstrating the superior beauty of truth, by placing it in contrast with error, is obliged to regard any absurdity, however gross, as one of the hydra-headed fallacies through which we are to evolve what is true, only by the circuitous plan of exhausting the resources of hypothesis and conjecture: whilst sweeping epidemics, which, wholesomely regarded, should be looked on reverently as besoms of destruction, are hailed by the observant as melancholy, but necessary, impulses, to drive us to the adoption of measures, to which our capital of common sense is not sufficient to induce us to listen.