" The satire here is not so fortunately displayed, as in other instances, owing probably to the difficulty of saying any thing new on so hackneyed a subject; for it has ever happened, that, "The Galenist and Paracelsian, Condemn the way each other deals in.

Ask one of them of what religion he is, he scoffingly replies, a philosopher, a Galenist, an Averroist, and with Rabelais a physician, a peripatetic, an epicure.

This Barrister may be likened to an ignorant but well-meaning Galenist, who writing against some infamous quack, who lived by puffing and vending pills of mercurial sublimate for all cases of a certain description, should have no stronger argument than to extol 'sarsaparilla', and 'lignum vitæ', or 'senna' in contempt of all mercurial preparations.