Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.

ordinary remedies. Yet he has the confidence and patron- age of hundreds of otherwise intelligent people." " I am glad to see one genuine disciple of Hahnemann," quoth Athothis, " for such practitioners are rare. If your statements regarding his ignorance are true, he is never- theless an honest man, for know that the founder of the system he follows was one of the first to teach that a knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathology was not needed to make a good doctor, for Hahnemann de- claims against those physicians wdio base their treatment on conclusions derived from such branches of knowledge ; ergo, ignorance on the subjects mentioned implies a true insight into the system of the author of the Organon. Besides, your true practitioner#of homeopathy need never vex his mind for a diagnosis. He should not say, for instance, that a child has scarlet fever, measles, whoop- ing-cough or diphtheria; for the father of Moonshine's system distinctly maintains that any expression denoting a collection of symptoms is not applicable to disease, and should be omitted in the discussion of medicine, wrhich •merely consists of therapeutics. As all disorders of man- kind, except one, are the result of a deadly psoric miasm, which evidences itself in a multitude of symptoms, it is an easy matter to understand what disease really is. As for your true homeopathic treatment it can do no harm if it doth no good. Mothers of families can safely pre- scribe for the symptoms of this psoric miasm by following simple text-books, and as the remedies are innocent little pellets the school must be very popular. Why people who profess to understand this system of medicine em- ploy any doctor is one of the mysteries of the century." " But we must observe the formalities of life," said Paulus Androcydes. " No sick bed is complete without