A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].

  • Albert Isaiah Coffin
Date:
1846
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Credit: A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    long as it remains in this simplicity, unmixed with and clear of this error, all the efforts of power and the other hand, if it should ever demand exclusive laws for its protection; if it should ever become an engine of power, or bigotted intolerance; in a word, if it should ever become the foe, instead of the friend of man, it must, like all other systems of medicine that have been invented, sink down of its own weight, to rise no more. I repeat, that, however successful this or any other system may be, so long as it exists in its purity and simplicity, and is practiced solely with a view to the good of mankind, and according to the becomes a vehicle by which man may ride over his fellow man, and raise and support himself by the labour of others, upon whom he looks down with scorn and we may begin to calculate that its existence 1s drawing to a close. : But to return from this digression to the considera~ tion of our subject : we before remarked that the value of the practice of medical botany is in its simplicity, and its easy adaptation to all manner of diseases, being entirely free from the errors which yet cling to the schools, and which custom has rendered somewhat sacred in the eyes of the profession. To prove this, it which we rest our former assertions. First, then, it is Prometheus drew down fire from heaven, for the purpose aed se ; ae
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