“The medical practice of our days is, at the best, a most _uncertain_ and unsatisfactory system; it has _neither philosophy nor common sense_ to commend it to confidence.”--DR. EVANS, Fellow of the Royal College, London. “There has been a great increase of medical men of late, _but_, upon my life, _diseases have increased in proportion_.”--JOHN ABERNETHY, M.D., “The Good,” of London. “Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are _medical lies_; and medical doctrines are, for the most part, _stark, staring nonsense_.”--Prof. GREGORY, of Edinburgh, author of a work on “Theory and Practice of Physic.” “It cannot be denied that the present system of medicine is a _burning shame_ to its professors, if indeed a series of vague and uncertain incongruities deserves to be called by that name. How rarely do our medicines do good! How often do they make our patients _really worse_! I fearlessly assert, that in most cases the sufferer would be _safer without a physician_ than with one. I have seen enough of the _mal-practice_ of my professional brethren to warrant the strong language I employ.”--Dr. RAMAGE, Fellow of the Royal College, London. “The present practice of medicine is a _reproach_ to the name of Science, while its professors give evidence of an _almost total ignorance_ of the nature and proper treatment of disease. Nine times out of ten, our miscalled remedies are _absolutely injurious_ to our patients, suffering under diseases of whose real character and cause we are most culpably ignorant.”--Prof. JAMEISON, of Edinburgh. Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call medical science, is _no science at all_, but a jumble of inconsistent opinions; of conclusions hastily and often incorrectly drawn; of facts misunderstood or perverted; of comparisons without analogy; of hypotheses without reason, and theories not only useless, but _dangerous_.”--_Dublin Medical Journal._ “Some patients get well with the aid of medicine; more without it; and still more _in spite of it_.”--SIR JOHN FORBES, M.D., F.R.S. “Thousands are annually _slaughtered_ in the quiet of the sick-room. Governments should at once either banish medical men, and proscribe their _blundering art_, or they should adopt some better means to protect the lives of the people than at present prevail, when they look far less after the practice of this _dangerous profession_, and the _murders_ committed in it, than after the lowest trades.”--Dr. FRANK, an eminent author and practitioner. “Our actual information or knowledge of disease does not increase in proportion to our experimental practice. Every dose of medicine given is a _blind experiment upon the vitality_ of the patient.”--Dr. BOSTOCK, author of “History of Medicine.”