iy INTRODUCTION. 
tem of practice which should render them independent of any 
other sect, elevate them to a standard of respectability, and re- 
move all grounds for the im putations of ignorance and incom- 
petency, which are now so lavishly heaped upon them by in- 
terested persons. Until such a standard is established, so- 
cieties formed, and the Botanic Profession brought up to that 
standard, public confidence in them, as a body, cannot be ex- 
pected. 
] And I would ask, what should hinder the accomplishment 
of so les an of je 
ec aa Arg. botanic medicines so intrin- 
fficient, or So deservedly so Whipopitiary-that they 
forever be “ebdenca to insignificance ? None dare 
Who has not, in the course of his life, seen astonish- 
mi by the simple. Virtues of saranda 
administered by the humble man of « roots and herb 
n the whole fre of miner has failed ? Does any one 
+. e s safe than minerals —— 
m ser: I ae martyrs to t atter who daily meet 
' then do we grovel i in the dust, when 
= ‘cr our possession such ample materials 
rings of our fellow beings ?>—And why 
rmitt render this service only with halters 
C ‘ > ‘Why is it that the Botanic Profession is 
ine most “of the States by legislative restrictions, — 
ny of t them, amount to absolute tyranny, as un- 
: ‘as unjust ? ? If there is a shadow of a cause for 
in, aside from the insidious misrepresentations 
d "persons, it is because Botanic Physicians are not 
t to themselves. Let them unite—form societies—estab- 
ish a respectable and intelligent standard of admission, and 
th e favor of the public will soon break their fetters, ; 
: if this present work shall in any degree stimulate ‘the 
embers of the Botanic Profession to the attainment of the 
above objects, or contribute in the least to their permanent 
bli ment—or even furnish an incitement to others more 
ble of doing justice to the undertaking, I shall be Sratic 
