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6 PREFACE. 
having a strong desire to do his fellow creatures good by im- 
to them the secrets of his own successful operations in 
the Vegetable line; and viewing the great destruction of 
human life by the usual dangerous mineral treatment of the 
Old School practice, and the vast amount of fraudulent patent 
medicines palmed off on the community, put up in syrups, 
-salves, pills, powders, and ointments, any one of which is 
said to cure all diseases ; and after a long series of years of 
assiduous study and observation, and successful practice, has 
thus induced him cheerfully to offer to the public a Boor 
For Everrgopy—the Reformed Botanic, and Indian Physi- 
cian—a complete guide to health—it being the last legacy 
that Dr. D. Surru has to give to his fellow man, hoping that 
‘through the guidance of the All-Wise Creator of Heaven / 
and Earth, that it will be useful to his fellow mortals, and 
. rescuing thousands and tens of thousands | 
them from an vainly grave. 
