back must we trace their genealogy to find the last glimpses of that sterling intellectual power which their ancestors possessed? If the American people should go on improving, as they call it, in this way, not many generations would pass before, instead of the iron frames and giant intellects which our ancestors possessed, a community of Lilliputians, whose physical and intellectual measurement might well correspond with the dimensions of homœopathic globules, would supply their places.
We would not be uncharitable towards the sick or invalids of any class, nor turn a deaf ear to the slightest groan of suffering humanity. We are aware that much suffering is hidden from common observation, and that many pine in silence and go down to the grave without a murmur. We know, too, that females generally bear pain with far more fortitude and less complaining than men. But whilst we know and acknowledge all these things, we cannot shut our eyes to the vast influence which fashion is constantly exerting in favor of quackery. If the men of this generation would make use of the same kind
