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tested and explained ; when mathematics, phy- 

 sics, chemistry, botany, general anatomy , general 

 pathology, had enabled the inquiring physician 

 to study with important results whatever be- 

 longs to his theme ; to understand the serial 

 chain and connexion of bodies with each other, 

 in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, 

 and to investigate their immutable laws. Uric 

 acid, as we see with the microscope, will 

 nl ways crystallize in rhombohedrons, ac- 

 cording to a fixed law ; the vegetable cell, the 

 germination of a seed, must obey, and always 

 submit to, the innate and indestructible forces 

 inherent in them. That which is true in the 

 vegetable is true in the animal world, as re- 

 gards the pre-established order which regu- 

 lates and controls the phenomena of life. These 

 laws which govern the development of organic 

 phenomena being immutable and everlasting, 

 permit the different generations which succeed 

 each other on our globe to build upon a 

 durable basis, which certifies to the slow and 

 laborious, but irresistible march of human 

 progress. 



Medical science being in truth only the 

 application of other positive sciences to the 



