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HOMŒOPATHY.
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the soil of Great Britain has spread with the rapidity of lightning over all the kingdom; and inasmuch as Homœopathy, after a trial of forty years, is still sternly rejected, its advocates may well abandon all hope of success in that country.

Again, we are told that Homœopathy is increasing rapidly on the continent of Europe. It is said that Paris, which has a population of one million one hundred thousand, and one thousand five hundred regular practitioners, has ninety homœopathists; that Madrid, with a population of two hundred and sixty thousand, has fifty homœopathists; that Marseilles, with a population of two hundred thousand, has five; that Bordeaux, with a population of one hundred and twenty thousand, has three; and Lyons, with a population of two hundred and fifty thousand, has six. In Leipsic, the birthplace of Homœopathy, according to recent accounts there are one hundred and twenty-five regular physicians, and only two homœopathic practitioners. Hamburg has one hundred and eighty-three regular physicians, and only one homœopathic practitioner. In all the cities and medical schools along the Rhine,