There is much truth in the following statement, from a spicy contemporary:
Doctors as a rule are fine fellows—kind, considerate, courteous, generous, charitable, influential, and deservedly so. We are all the creatures of circumstances and governed by our environments. Many medical men are misguided by colleges and circumstances. They honestly believe . . . that medicine is a science; that medical colleges teach all there is of the healing art. . . . These schools assume this; and it is not strange their pupils . . . grow conceited, egotistical, and intolerant. Like school, like pupil. . . . Monoply is the curse that works this evil.
Allopathy enforced its ponderous and poisonous doses, until Homœopathy challenged and contested the right to this monopoly. Then the Old School flew to legislation for protection against the infamous quacks. Now it joins hand and glove with its former enemy and the Eclectics, against the Christian Scientists, and their more influential, subtle, and healing agency—Spirit.
