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the other day looking at the book stands with which the walls are lined for squares.  The word Homeopathy caught my eye on a paper covered book and we bought it.

It speaks in one place of the growth of homeopathy in France and says the growth of patients is faster than the growth of new doctors.  It was printed in 1870 - by Dr Paul Landry M.D. of the faculty of Paris member of the Homeop Society of France & of several learned societies.  Physicians of the Hom-Dispensaries - Title "L'Homeopathie Vulgarisée Guide Médical des Familles"

I will get Effie to translate a few bits.

"Homeopathy unknown 100 years ago has been under suspicion during the last half century with us, but during the last 30 years has made a progress which it would be puerile to wish to contest.

For reasons which I have made known, the greatest number of physicians neither wish nor dare to put into practice, ostensibly at least, this new doctrine.  The public, on the contrary, disinterested in the questions of theory and the rivalries of schools, and who seek simply the way the most sure, the most easy, and the most prompt of obtaining the cure of its ills, appears to have better appreciated our zeal and our efforts.

We see in effect each day the increase in the ranks of our adherents, drawn by the incontestable success of our practice.  But the number of clients increase in a proportion greater than that of the physicians and it is necessary to have still more of these latter.  In order that they be more equally divided in the land.

Today still, in order to obtain the care of a homepathic physician it is necessary to live in a large city.

From day to day this state of things