X INTRODUCTION. 



convinced that this medium-s\stem was tlie best, 

 and I now confidently recommned it as the most 

 efficients 



" Magna est Veritas et prcevalebit." 

 " Truth is mighty, and must prevail." 



Besides other advantages which this system pos- 

 sesses, the remedies are administered in so agree- 

 able a form, that they may be taken without the 

 consciousness of their being medicinal. This is 

 worthy of attention, as it removes one of the many 

 difficulties which obstruct the way of the physician, 

 in the exercise of his profession. He has often to 

 contend with prejudices and notions imbibed in early 

 infancy, and to attend.to idiosyncrasies, lest he should 

 increase instead of removing evils. In children, he 

 has to struggle with obstinacy, ill-humor caused by 

 pain, &c. In the treatment of females, he must 

 never lose sight of their nervous mobility (natural or 

 aflfected) which often becomes constitutional ; their 

 greater sensitiveness, their stronger irritability, and 

 their more delicate organisation \ and if, eventually, 

 he is fortunate enough to conquer all these difficulties, 

 still he may not cry victory^ until he has acquired the 

 art of removing from his prescriptions all that is nau- 

 seous or disagreeable. 



It is a palpable act of cruelty in mothers to force 

 their infants to swallow remedies which are repug- 

 nant to their taste, in the mistaken notion that bitter 

 pains must be removed by bitter medicines. Nature, 

 in placing at our disposal such vast stores of medi- 

 cinal treasures, surely never conceived the revenge- 

 ful notion of punishing those who had recourse to 

 their aid. It is more consonant with reason to suppose, 



