CHAPTER II
HOMŒOPATHY—ITS ORIGIN, PRINCIPLES, ATTENUATIONS,
ETC. CARBO VEGETABILIS.
In Great Britain, when any particular kind of quackery gains a temporary ascendancy over others, it is said to wear the bell. Although we have no authority to settle questions of rank in that army, I suppose no one will object to placing Homœopathy at the head of the regiment for a single review; and if, after sundry marches and counter-marches, this company shall be found at the other extremity of the regiment, no one need be disappointed. Samuel Hahnemann has been called the founder of this sect. He was born at a place called Messein, in Upper Saxony, in 1755, and graduated at the Medical School at Leipsic at the early age of 20. During his pupilage he seems to have imbibed a strong dislike to the profession, and instead of engaging in the practice of medicine after his graduation, he employed his time in translating several German
