There is, however, one result of the course which this class of medical men have pursued, which seems to be opening the eyes of the most honorable among them, and which promises to bring them out from their false and degrading position. They find that their cunning subservience to the false opinions of the people, has increased the hold of those opinions upon the public mind; and, as a wide door has thus been opened for quackery, they find that the same arts, in using which they have been so successful, are now used quite as dexterously by the whole herd of ignorant quacks and showy pretenders. They find that the Homœpathist is stealing away some of their best, and, as they thought, their most reliable patients. The Thompsonian, the Chrono-thermalist, &c., are committing similar depredations. And of all this they have no right to complain, because these pretenders obtain these patients by the same artful and deceptive means, by which these physicians at first acquired them, and by which they have so long retained them among their patrons. The result which I have pointed out is an accumulated result. The community are running wild now after various systems and modes of practice, and the public mind is all afloat, carried about by every wind of doctrine in medicine. It is now the hey-dey of quackery of all kinds and degrees. The causes of the great prevalence of this evil are not temporary and recent, but they have been acting for a long time, and we now see the accumulated result. Among the chief of these causes is the course which has been pursued by a large portion of the medical profession. The profession itself has given birth to much of the quackery of the present day. The evil of this comes upon the profession generally, but more particularly and grievously upon the class of physicians of which I have just been speaking. The first class which I mentioned are not as much affected, because, being less scrupulous, they have a wider range of arts to be used; and the mortifications to which they are subjected in their competition with quacks are more easily borne, because they have less of honor and conscience to trouble them in relation to their course. While this class will be utterly opposed to any attempts at reform, the second class of which I have spoken, seeing their false position, and beginning to suffer some of its vexatious results, will probably experience a sifting process, whenever efforts at reform shall be thoroughly entered upon. The least honorable, and those whose habits of imposition (for such they must be termed), have become fixed, will join the first class, giving up all scruple, and adopting in full the measures of the quack and charlatan. But I am persuaded, that the largest portion of this class of practitioners have so much of honor and conscience, that, whenever a general effort shall be made to redeem the profession from its false position before the community, they will be ready to unite in that effort.