Such  critical  and  palpably  curative  evacuations,  cannot  surely
be  considered  as  the  products  of  diseased  actions ;  nor  can
those  pertaining  to  the  higher  grades,  which  require  appro-
priately potent  medication  for  their  elimination,  be  consider-
ed with  any  show  of  philosojihy,  in  any  other  light  from
whatsoever  causes  arising.  The  incalculable  importance  of
the  subject  now  under  examination,  must  be  considered  as
justifying  us  in  all  such  repetition  and  variety  of  exposition,
as  we  may  consider  it  necessary  to  resort  to,  for  its  most
conclusive  elucidation.  We  shall  unfold  the  true  philosophy
of  medicine,  so  long  su-ch  a  desideratum  in  our  world,  to  the
inevitable  recognition  of  all  such  legitimate  inductive  re-
search, as  will  be  sanctioned  by  nature,  reason,  and  common
sense; — and  if,  in  effecting  such  a  desirable  revolution,  in
what  have  been  heretofore  erroneously  called  the  philoso-
phies or  theories  of  medicine,  we  should  be  guilty  of  much
tautology; — the  invaluable  blessings  which  will  result  to
mankind,  from  presenting  this  philosophy  to  the  inevitable
recognition  of  the  medical  profession,  must  plead  for  us  con-
clusively in  justification.
