One of the most effectual means of eradicating quackery is the promotion of a thorough education of the medical profession. The lower the standard of education is among medical men, the greater will be the number of ignorant pretenders who will gain admission into their ranks, and consequently the greater will be the prevalence of quackery in the profession, and of course in the community. This result is the more certain to follow, because deception and imposture are practised upon the public so much more easily in medicine, than in regard to other subjects. And it is for this reason that it is for the interest of the community to have a proper standard of medical education maintained _much more even than it is for the interest of the profession itself_. For so little are they qualified to judge on medical subjects, and so much are they obliged to take medical practice upon trust, that it is important for them, that they should have all the benefit of the safeguards the requisitions of our professional organizations throw around them. And this leads me to say, that it is only through these organizations that a proper education of the profession can be secured. Imperfect as they are, and much as they fall short of accomplishing fully the object, if they were done away, as some self-styled reformers, who hate all ‘regularism,’ desire, empiricism would abound vastly more than it does even now, for the door then would be opened widely for the impostures which it so easily practises upon the people. The community are much at fault in their opinions and practices on this subject. These organizations are lightly esteemed, and sometimes even treated with contempt. Even those who are shrewd and judicious in all other matters, often put the quack of a day on a level with the accredited physician, laden with the carefully gathered experience of years, or perhaps even above him, and welcome with open arms the advocate of some new system for the moment high in favor, with scarcely any regard to the inquiry, whether he has been educated in any proper manner for the responsible post into which he has thrust himself. Many a man of fair address, and a good share of cunning, with but a mere smattering of medical knowledge, has dubbed himself a physician, and, adopting Homœopathy, or some other system just then in fashion, has imposed not only upon the ignorant, but the intelligent and learned.