of megrim, deafness, cataract, amaurosis, urinary calculus, paralysis, defects of the senses, and pains of thousands of kinds which figure in systematic works on pathology, as peculiar independent diseases."
At a homœopathic school which was established for a time at Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, of which a Dr. Mure was president, every candidate for graduation was required to make confession of his faith in Homœopathy, and then to take a most solemn oath to abide by the principles taught by Hahnemann. The oath concludes as follows: "And this I swear in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." After this, the president addressed the graduates in the following words: "In the name of Hahnemann, discoverer of Homœopathy, from whom I have received the mission, and the power, and with the assistance of my coadjutors the disciples of that messenger from Heaven, I now declare you fit to exercise the new art, acknowledge you as my colleagues, and as professors of pure Homœopathy." [See British Journal of Homœopathy for 1849, page 537.]
By this highly imposing ceremony, that insti-
