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NUMBER OF PRACTITIONERS.
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Irregulars, as follows:

Homœopathists, about 1000
Hydropathists, about 400
Female Physicians, 300
Eclectics, 800
Botanies, 600
Chrono-Thermalists, 300

Besides the foregoing, there are—

Indian doctors, Astrologic,
Clairvoyants, Magnetic,
Natural Bone-setters, Uriscopic,
Mesmerists, 7th sons,
Galvanic, Blowpipe doctors,
&c. &c. &c.

With a large number of itinerant nostrum venders; perhaps, in all, three or four thousand.

The whole number of regular physicians in the State of Massachusetts, at the present time, is about fourteen hundred; and the number of irregulars, of all sorts, is about two hundred.

The number of regular physicians in the State of New York, is about five thousand two hundred; and the number of irregulars, of all sorts, about eight hundred.

The whole number of regular physicians in the State of Ohio, is two thousand five hundred and

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