7O The Triumphal Chariot of A ntimony. 



care to learn, or to become any wiser, 

 refrain, at least, from pronouncing upon 

 what you do not understand, lest your 

 own judgment be harder than you can 

 bear. 



It should be the principal aim of 

 every physician, whilst he does every- 

 thing he can to cure the disease, not to 

 hinder rather than help the cure which 

 Nature is trying to effect. If the spirit 

 of wine be added to aua_jortis, there 

 will be a strong effervescence, and these 

 two substances will not agree ; but if 

 they be properly united, by means of 

 philosophical distillation, they will form 

 a highly useful compound. Oil of tartar 

 and grape vinegar are similarly related. 

 They are as incompatible as fire and 

 water, although they are both prepared 

 from the same substance. Hence it 

 should be the physician's first care to 

 become acquainted with all the circum- 

 stances of the disease. These circum- 

 stances he should then diligently consider, 

 and select such remedies as are likely to 

 remove the disorder, lest, by giving the 



