Excerpt from The American Homoeopathist, 1888, Vol. 14: An Exponent of Medical Progress It is equally trite, but by no means Vim/apropos to say, that occasion ally the policy of a publication changes absolutely from that inaugurated by its founders. For this no tear of regret need be wasted, since it but proves the tendency to progress inherent in every age and every clime, however radical and advanced such progress may seem to the imme diate actors. There are to-day two metropolitan dailies in St. Louis; the one called Democrat and the other Republican, theformer Republican and the latter Democratic in politics. And who that has been a reader of homoeopathic literature for any great length of time, has failed to note the gradual change in the N. E. Flier/[ml Gazelle, the N. A. Jour nal of Hozzzwopat/zy, the Ila/memamzzan, and others; so that the com parison of a current number with the initial number would fail to dis cover a resemblance? Is this necessarily a deterioration By no means. A similar comparison between the literature of any art or science would produce a like result. The present status of any journal is the present status of the guild among which it circulates. In other words A Journal is what its Contributors make. The stream cannot rise higher than its source So that the cry so often heard among the disaffected or delinquent that the journal fails to come up to its pristine standard 15 either meaningless or malicious. The american Houdi opa'-'i'lll81 has doubtlessly been charged with this 'crime, but a careful perusal will find that it was always alert for the good of the cause, even if, at times, it failed to respond to the potency whip. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.