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any substance having the property of producing a 

 like irritation ; thus the scalded hand is pained by 

 a distant fire, the inflamed skin by the slightest 

 touch, the inflamed eye to light. Medicine is the 

 small guiding force, nature the strong impelling 

 force. '* Nature," says Dr. Andrew Combe, " is 

 truly the agent in the cure of disease, and as she 

 acts in accordance with fixed and invariable laws, 

 the aim of the physician ought always to be to 

 facilitate her efforts, by acting in harmony with, 

 and not in opposition to those laws. Nature may 

 be aided, but she ought never to be thwarted ; and 

 medicine will advance toward the certainty of 

 other sciences, only in proportion as we become 

 fillled with this guiding principle " 



We flatter ourselves that for simplicity, com- 

 pleteness and reliability, this little box and case of 

 medicines will commend itself to the judgment of 

 a discerning public. 



( LIBRARY 



'( UNIVERSITY OF 



CALIFORNIA. 



