dynamical science, as well as of therapeutics; a proceeding as unphilosophical as if Newton had attempted to make the law of gravitation the basis of chemistry, physiology, and metaphysics, as well as of astronomy.

I venture to hope that this confusion is now cleared up, the difficulty obviated, and a serious objection removed; and that in future both the nature and the limits of the principle of Homœopathy will be perceived and maintained. I shall rejoice if I have made the subject more intelligible to my readers, and placed it in a light less repulsive to my professional brethren.

ESSAY VII.

THE PROVINGS OF HOMEOPATHY.

"A very little Truth will sometimes enlighten a vast extent of science."BEATTIE.

ESSAY VII.

THE PROVINGS OF HOMEOPATHY.

"But yet these truths being never so certain, never so clear, he may be ignorant of either, or all of them, who will never take the pains to employ his faculties as he should, to inform himself about them."-LOCKE.

Ir drugs are remedies for disease, it is obvious that some means must be used to discover their various properties; in other words, to learn the effects they are severally capable of producing upon the human body. Let us inquire

I. What have been the means hitherto adopted for this purpose, and the result.

II. What new method has been suggested, and agreed to.

III. How far this new method has been carried out.

I. What have been the means hitherto adopted to ascertain the curative powers of drugs, and what has been the result? The means hitherto adopted have been the trial of them in