silliest and didliest of all the hundred forms of Quackery, first
rose--unlike Seeince, Art, Religion, and all true Suns--in the West; to
wound the sick; to weaken the weak; and mutilate the hurt; and thin
mankind."

The voluble impugner of his own profession delivered these two last words
in thunder so sudden and effective as to strike Julia's work out of her
hands. But here, as in Nature, a moment's pause followed the thunderclap;
so Mrs. Dodd, who had long been patiently watching her opportunity,
smothered a shriek, and edged in a word: "This is irresistible; you have
confuted everybody, to their heart's content; and now the question is,
what course shall we substitute?" She meant, "in the great case, which
occupies me." But Sampson attached a nobler, wider, sense to her query.
"What course? Why the great Chronothairmal practice, based on the
remittent and febrile character of all disease; above all, on


The law of Perriodicity, a law
Midicine yet has wells of light to draw.

By Remittency, I mean th' ebb of Disease, by Perriodicity, th' ebb and
also the flow, the paroxysm and the remission. These remit and recur, and
keep tune like the tides, not in ague and remittent fever only, as the
Profission imagines to this day, but in all diseases from a Scirrhus in
the Pylorus t' a toothache. And I discovered this, and the new path to
cure of all diseases it opens. Alone I did it; and what my reward?
Hooted, insulted, belied, and called a quack by the banded school of
profissional assassins, who, in their day hooted Harvey and
Jinner--authors too of great discoveries, but discoveries narrow in their
consequences compared with mine. T' appreciate Chronothairmalism, ye must