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as long as the sovereign is well, and withholding his salary 

 during the term of the royal illness. Accordingly, although 

 it seems hard to expect those who live by curing disease 

 to co-operate in preventing it, the enlightened few see 

 which way the wind sets, and are already lending their 

 efforts to promote hygienic knowledge. 



"But I am no renegade to my profession. No one 

 knows better, [modest!] or would argue more stoutly, than 

 myself, that the common basis of hygienic and of medical 

 knowledge is an enlightened study of disease, [one would 

 think so, extremely sharp!] and that physicians and sur- 

 geons have honestly [clever !] done their best for the real 

 interests of both, in their long and elaborate researches, 

 which have resulted in modern physiology and pathology. 

 For the first step to be realized was, the determination of 

 what it is that is to be cured, or prevented, of what are the 

 causes, what the intimate nature, and what the spontane- 

 ous course and progress of disease. Thus much, I repeat, 

 this necessary initial achievement has been worthily ac- 

 complished by the labors of physicians and surgeons. The 

 science, so to speak, has been done ample justice to ; not 

 so the art, at least the medical part of the art of healing. 

 Not that efforts on the part of physicians in this direction 

 have been wholly wanting or erroneous. [They have been 

 in active existence and successful progress for more than 

 two thousand years: witness Hygeia and her l big snake, 1 

 which he so much admires.] Not to speak of the noble 

 half -hygienic [only half?] invention of Jenner for the ex- 

 tirpation of small-pox, the realization of the efficiency of 

 bleeding, of calomel, of tartar emetic in various forms of 

 inflammation, of opium, colchicum, iodine, in other speci- 

 alities, [specialties ?] are valuable points in the art. But 

 still the art is a world behind the science." (Compare 

 with Hufeland, fifty-five years before, on the origin of ideas !) 

 Next to this follows an ignominious insult to "nineteen cases 

 [gentlemen] out of twenty" of the profession to which he, 

 of course, is "no renegade." 



