The last on the list of professional philosophies is that of the Therapeutist; the least misleading, from being the most concise. The word ACTION includes the whole. There is no inquiry to which the word _action_ is not the deeply-learned significant reply; being indefinite, it stands for a dead-stop silencer. The doctor knows best--with much room for knowing better. The doctor knows, and assures from his own certain knowledge, that the _action_ of the dose on the stomach upheaves the sac; but rather than be thought positive, allows that the effect may be from the _action_ of the stomach on the dose. The good easy man of M.D. celebrity, or mediocrity, has to learn, that the dose is as _inert_ as when in the tea-cup, and the stomach as _inert_ as when it has arrived at the predicted destiny, the dissecting table. Again, the _action_ of the pain prevents the _action_ of the physic, otherwise the cure would have been immediate. Such philosophy is harmless, if so to the patient; from its insignificance it corrupts neither pathology, osteology, nor dynamics. Not so the learning, published on high surgical authority, to enlighten ward-walking noviciates--that "pain may exist in the _flesh_ and bones without being felt, owing to the _insensible_ sensibility of the part," which amounts to an excruciating, painless toothache, and, the being unconscious of excited consciousness. Pain is not in the diseased or wounded part, being the consequence of cerebral excitement; pain is one of the objects of perception belonging to the scenery of the sensorium, from which it cannot migrate. The disorganised part is but the apparent place of pain; and wisely such, or else all remedial applications would be to the brain. As to the dose and stomach _action_, it stands corrected by the diagnosis; the stomach is lifted in consequence of the equilibrium of pressure being destroyed by means of the dose, notwithstanding its additional weight, within the stomach. Chymical action of the dose and self-lifting muscles are all of Esculapian surmise. The faculty should cease to identify feeling, pain, sensation, with organic ailments and disorganization of the flesh. ATTRACTION.