The following are the rules laid down for practitioners on the new system:—
'1. Never prescribe medicines when hygiene will do as well and can be enforced.
'2. Never permit the patient, or those around him, to expect more from medicines than medicines can perform.
'3. Never prescribe medicines, except avowedly as mere palliatives, when the period is gone by for them to be of ultimate service.
'4. Never conceal the general intention of the treatment; that is, whether it be adopted with a view to cure, or only to mitigate the disease, or merely to alleviate a symptom or symptoms.
'5. Never prescribe medicines more powerful than are necessary; or continue a powerful medicine longer, or repeat it oftener, than the disease actually requires.
'6. Never attribute to the medicine-giving part of the management of a successful case more than its due share of credit.'
We have called this a new system, but a new system is nothing without a name; and we therefore beg leave to suggest one, made up, like the others, of a Greek compound. First, we have Allopathy, another suffering; then Homœopathy, the same suffering; then Hydropathy, water-suffering; and now let us have Anapathy, no suffering at all.