a 
r life. 
Cs ey. 
ts FAMILY PHYSICIAN. ™ 
gen oo power ; and from a long experi- 
ence of its use, I am convinced that it is equally 
t ering vast ausnberg feeble and debilitated 
ed difference ence between t ise t wo ar- 
fhe it would be a happy 
‘if physicians would, at once, 
- divest themsees of the their blind prejudices i in fa- 
vor of a mineral, and consent, at least, to make 
a trial of alia Sheps substitute. ‘Their hu- 
manity should be a sufficient inducement for this. 
The plea that the Secs ss kingdom contains 
no equivalent to mercury, o longer tenable ; 
then why should not phyaslat discard the use 
of it at once, when it is universally acknowledg- 
ed a at in aggregate: = has proved 
a curse, a estroyer to the hum 
disuse of it, it is true, wou eg e employ- 
ment of the medical profession ;_ got the satisfac- 
tion they must feel at the proportionate decrease 
_ of cape — ‘their fellow beings, will, no 
ompensate them for the pecuniary 
ot loses its virtue by age and exposure. 
