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

from the direct enmity of church and state. Quietly ag- gressive, but with thrice the cunning and skill of the Jesuit, he has made radical changes in the workings and operations of ecclesiastical and civil law, and has ever been found on the side of social revolution. "Although crafty and usually dissimulating, he has, nevertheless, occasionally openly entered the controver- sial field in antagonism to the other professions. The eminent anatomist, Michael Servetus, the author of Trinitatis Erroribus, Dialogorum de Trinitate, Justatitia Regni Christi, Christianismi Restitutio, awakened the wrath of that eminent Protestant reformer, Calvin, who caused his medical adversary to be burned at the stake. Remember the glorious Balthazar Orobio, who wrote Cer- tamen Philosophicum and was so cruelly tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, and Julian Mettrie, who was driven out of Germany and France for merely inditing L'Homme Machine. Look how nobly Virchow of late stood up in the German Parliament and openly battled against the arch fiend, Bismarck, for the cause of human right. Can we forget Darwin, who started modern theologians with his missing link ? " In the field of collateral sciences, who looms up so grandly as the doctor? Who has made botany and natural history what they are ? The study of materia medica and comparative anatomy induces a taste for original investigation of the flora and fauna, and many a medical mind has been seduced from the exclusive study of physic by that lovely syren Nature. On sea and land, in every clime, the scientific doctor is busy searching for new species and rare varieties. In this earnest pursuit, he wanders from the ice-bound coasts of the Arctic regions to the interior of tropical Africa. He leaves behind him