NUMBER OF PRACTITIONERS.
333
Irregulars, as follows:
| Homœopathists, about | 1000 |
| Hydropathists, about | 400 |
| Female Physicians, | 300 |
| Eclectics, | 800 |
| Botanies, | 600 |
| Chrono-Thermalists, | 300 |
Besides the foregoing, there are—
| Indian doctors, | Astrologic, |
| Clairvoyants, | Magnetic, |
| Natural Bone-setters, | Uriscopic, |
| Mesmerists, | 7th sons, |
| Galvanic, | Blowpipe doctors, |
| &c. &c. &c. | |
With a large number of itinerant nostrum venders; perhaps, in all, three or four thousand.
The whole number of regular physicians in the State of Massachusetts, at the present time, is about fourteen hundred; and the number of irregulars, of all sorts, is about two hundred.
The number of regular physicians in the State of New York, is about five thousand two hundred; and the number of irregulars, of all sorts, about eight hundred.
The whole number of regular physicians in the State of Ohio, is two thousand five hundred and
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