Had the homoeopaths done nothing in practical medicine but fix and precisionize the use of Aconitum in inflammations and fevers of the inflammatory kind,, they would have well merited the undying gratitude of the whole human race.

That the use of Aconite is thus by them fixed with scientific precision is a matter of common knowledge, and needs no further insisting upon, for "we do not drink our Aconite out of a Wilksian mug."

But while this is a fact, while we thus have inflammatory fever, as it were, under our thumbs, we have heretofore had to deal with typhoid and other continued fevers from blood-poisoning in quite a different manner.

Granted that Aconitum is no mean remedy even in these continued fevers, still it will not jugulate them or shorten their course, though it will ease them, and will even do a good deal towards rendering a mild case milder, perhaps, through the diaphoresis.

Granted also that Baptisia tinctoria will do much good in some cases of continued fevers, perhaps even jugulate some gastro-catarrhal cases, still, from a good deal of experience, I can say that it is at best a long way from having a real control over the continued fevers I have met with.