Allegiance to one party means hostility to all others.

Its a mess.

Now my honourable confreres are stumbling around, taking a fancy to medicaments which they don't even know how to use.

Take antipyrine, for example.

It is one of the very few really active products that the chemists have found in a long time.
Well, where is the doctor who knows that, applied in a compress with iodide and cold Bondonneau spring water, antipyrine combats the supposedly incurable ailment, cancer?
And if that seems incredible, it is true, nevertheless." "Honestly," said Durtal, "you believe that the old-time doctors came nearer healing ?" "Yes, because, miraculously, they know the effects of certain invariable remedies prepared without fraud.