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boiir, who in too many cases paid the penalty of her 

 kindness in becoming herself the victim of the same 

 disorder ! ' From the vantage ground already won I look 

 forward with confident hope to the triumph of medical 

 art over scenes of misery like that here described. The 

 cause of the calamity being once clearly revealed, not 

 only to the physician, but to the public, whose intelli- 

 gent co-operation is absolutely essential to success, thf, 

 final victory of humanity is only a question of time. We 

 have already a foretaste of that victory in the triumphs 

 of surgery as practised at your doors. 



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