As it has been fashionable in the world of business and politics, to denounce moneyed corporations, as being monopolies, so that system of institutions, or corporations (as they may be termed,) by which a well educated medical profession is secured to the community, has also been denounced and attacked by this same spirit of radicalism. Thompsonism has been one of the principal channels through which this attack has been made. The followers of Thompson have always spoken of the medical faculty as a privileged order, which must be overthrown, and down with ‘regularism’ has been the chief motto on their banner of ‘reform.’ All this, however, comes with an ill grace from them, for the ‘venerated founder’ of their system began his career with as sheer a monopoly as ever existed—a patent securing to him the power of selling rights for twenty dollars each, to every family; and the last days of this ‘reformer’ were embittered by a quarrel on this point, with some of his agents. And, besides this, his followers have adopted the very ‘regularism’ for which they have professed to have so holy an abhorrence. It is Thompsonian ‘regularism’ it is true, but nevertheless it _is_ ‘regularism.’ Like the ‘regulars,’ against whom they have waged such an uncompromising war, they have now in Connecticut, and I suppose in other states also, their State Society, and their board of Censors for the examination of candidates; and they put the badge of ‘regularism’ upon these candidates, by giving them a ‘regular’ diploma. The truth is, that they found that so many of the class who are too lazy to work were coming from the workshop and the field, dubbing themselves at once Thompsonian physicians, that the business was getting to be overdone. Hence the necessity of some restrictions. And it is _restrictions_ which constitute the ‘regularism,’ the ‘monopoly,’ against which they have always declaimed.