Pneumonia is a very common disease, extremely dangerous, and by skilful treatment it is very often cured, yet of these 100 cases 66 were not diagnosed. I recently saw a severe case of double pneumonia which a physician was treating as "indigestion," and he was giving pepsin tablets for the supposed indigestion. There is such a thing as extraordinary scientific precision in medical work, but it is rare; the ordinary physician treats symptoms without knowing the cause of the symptoms; that is, the symptom-treater is a quack, and if euthanasia were legalized thousands of such quacks would be permitted to murder with an overdose of morphine any querulous old man or woman who might fall into their hands. Osteopaths and chiropractors are masseurs, and they know very little of massage, but they are licensed by legislatures to practise medicine, and some of them even try obstetrical malpractice. They, too, would be licensed to inflict euthanasia. Pure homeopathy is little more than a name at present; it is faith-healing without prayer. It attenuates its drugs 100 per cent. for thirty repetitions, to a degree expressible by one with sixty ciphers. Consequently it gives sugar of milk or alcohol in minute quantities plus a label, and one cannot make much of an impression on any disease with a label. Such practitioners also would come under the euthanasia act. BIBLIOGRAPHY Cardinal John de Lugo. Disputationes Scholasticae et Morales, vol. vi; De Justitia et Jure, disputatio x. St. Augustine. I Contra Petilianum, cap. 24; Ad Marcellianum Comitem, cap. 21; De Civitate Dei, cap. 17 to 28. Aristotle. III Ethicorum, cap. 7, and lib. v, cap. ii. Plato. Phaedo. Cicero. Quaestiones Tusculanae. I, lib. v; De Somno Scipionis. Lessius. De Justitia et Jure, lib. ii, c. 9, dub. 6, 7. Molina. De Justitia et Jure, vol. i, tr. 2, disp. 119; vol. iv, tr. 3, disp. 1 and 9. St. Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, 2, 2, q. 64, a. 5, 7. St. Alphonsus Liguori. Theologia Moralis, vol. iv, tr. 4. See this book for opposed opinions and a bibliography. Costa-Rossetti. Philosophia Moralis, thesis 120. Ferretti. Philosophia Moralis, theses xci, xciv. Macksey. De Ethica Naturali, theses xxxiv _et seq._ CHAPTER II GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING MUTILATION