We must in candour admit that, as far as the inquiry into all the facts of the case go, as laid down by Hahnemann, we think the profession may take a hint with advantage. We have long pleaded for more accuracy in this respect; but we fear, as yet, pleaded in vain. Homœopathic influences may be perhaps more successful. Practically, the good that results from homœopathy, as it appears to us, may be thus stated: that if people will leave off drinking alcohol, live plainly, and take very little medicine, they will find that many disorders will be relieved by this treatment alone. For the rest, we fear that the so-called small doses are either inert, or, if persisted in so as to produce effect, that they incur the risk of accumulating in the system influences injurious to the economy; which the histories of mercury, arsenic, and other poisons, show to be nothing uncommon: and, further, that this tends to keep out of sight the real uses and the _measured influences_ of medicine, which, in the ordinary practice, their usual effects serve, as the case may be, to suggest or demonstrate. Practically, therefore, the effects of homœopathy resolve themselves, so far as they are good, into a more or less careful diet, and small doses of medicine; which, as we have said, is a chipping off of the views of Abernethy. We regret we have no space to consider the relation of homœopathy to serious and acute diseases. We can therefore only say that the facts which have come before us have left no doubts on our minds of its being alike dangerous and inapplicable. One morning, a nobleman asked his surgeon (who was representing to him the uselessness of consulting a medical man without obeying his injunctions) what he thought would be the effect of his going into a hydropathic establishment? "That you would get perfectly well," was the reply; "for there your lordship would get plain diet and good air, and, as I am informed, good hours; in short, the very things I recommend to you, but which you will not adopt with any regularity." Hydropathy sets out, indeed, with water as its staple, and the skin as the organ to which it chiefly addresses itself; but we imagine that the hydropathic physician, if he sees nothing in philosophical medicine, discovers sufficient in human nature, to prevent him from trading on so slender a capital. There was, no doubt, in the imperfection of medical science, a fine opening left for a scheme which proposed to rest its merits chiefly on an organ so much neglected.