bystanders, is nevertheless to some extent complicated; it has its peculiar symptoms and conditions, and it is not until collecting, comparing and considering all these, that the best physician is able to determine upon the means most proper to be employed.
Besides, it is often very difficult, if not impossible, to determine the true character of a disease by its early symptoms; so that much skill and experience are often required to make a correct diagnosis. But when the case is fully made out, no good physician thinks of treating it with one or more specifics. Such remedies are improper for physicians, and always dangerous in the hands of the common people, as many sad examples prove. The mother thinks her child has worms, because a neighboring matron has made such a positive diagnosis. Although she is not aware that the child is in the least indisposed, yet she thinks it must be cured of the worms immediately. She procures a bottle of vermifuge, and commences the process. She repeats and continues to repeat the dose, but no worms appear. Being determined to accom-
