42 Dr. Hancock on the Juribali. 
is yet deeply read in it, and especially attached to the much 
neglected, but most important, department of medical botany, 
and, although not a medical practitioner, yet a practiser of 
charity, and, I may add, a real friend to the poor and a patriot 
of his country. 
Some may imagine that this is irrelevant to our subject, but 
I entertain a different opinion. ‘The objects we should hold 
ourselves pledged to maintain are, and I hope ever will be, 
the charitable purposes of aiding the poor, and of turning the 
bounties of nature to the relief of human suffering. 
