Should one designate to the medical profession that proper place as being at the bottom of the deep blue sea he would, no doubt, strike a responsive chord and receive from its members—especially while in each other's presence—a most hearty approval; and yet, I fancy, should such an edict be ordered and executed, that after the great circle of illumination had climbed the distant mountain, and the moon, in shame, had turned her brilliant face the other way, there would scarcely be diving or fishing room on the great high sea, for the divers and fishermen who would be there seeking their favorite remedies and indispensable specifics. In other words, allow me to make the broad assertion, and I make it without fear of successful contradiction, that proprietary remedies are in existence to-day, and used many times to the exclusion of the old reliables, because the medical profession wants it