in Great Britain. We are told that Homœopathy was first introduced among the nobility, that its principal support at the present time is from that class, and that all the middling classes generally adhere to the regular system. The paupers who receive their prescriptions at free dispensaries, neither know nor care anything about medical systems; it is all the same to them, so long as they can be served free of charge. The English nobility are generally above giving their attention to the examination of abstruse medical theories; they are willing to let medicine alone, so long as they enjoy their ordinary health. Some have but little confidence in any system of medical practice, and all prefer those means which subject them to the least inconvenience. The whole truth seems to be, that all the middle classes, who constitute three-fourths of the whole population—all the thinking, reasoning, strongminded, common-sense men of Great Britain, reject Homœopathy;—and that, besides the paupers, it has little or no support except from a few of the higher classes who think it beneath them to think at all about medical systems, and
