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demand from its cultivators, and from those who rn#y desire 

 to enter within its precincts, a much more thorough physico- 

 mathematical training than has hitherto been considered 

 necessary to the science or art of medicine. 



In the second place, as every advance in chemico-physical 

 truth is followed sooner or later by a corresponding applica- 

 tion of it to the wants of humanity, so we may confidently 

 look forward to a continuous increase in the number of 

 chemico-physical ajDpliances to the amelioration of human 

 suffering, and to the prolongation of human life. 



Again, as it must be admitted that the science of organ- 

 isation, and more particularly the entire science of the 

 human economy, necessarily involve the laws of the in- 

 stinctive manifestations and of the conscious intelligence ; as, 

 moreover, it is essential to every increase in the clearness of 

 our conceptions of these laws that they should be investigated 

 through the only medium which our human, and therefore 

 limited faculties supply • and as the advance of chemico- 

 physical science into the domains of organisation has only 

 had the effect of bringing the instinctive manifestations and 

 the fundamental facts of conscious intelligence which arc 

 involved in organisation more strongly and distinctly into 

 \ Lew, and of reserving them for the methods proper for their 

 investigation, we may, I believe, confidently anticipate great 

 progress in the psychological department of organic science. 



As we have already seen that the peculiar liability of 

 man to corporeal injury and to disease is directly related to 

 the intellectual and moral departments of his constitution, we 

 may confidently assume that the more careful study of these 

 departments of the human constitution, in their relations to 

 di ease, will tend greatly to the amelioration of human suffer- 

 ing and to the longevity of the race. And here 1 would 

 observe, that in as far as disease is mediately dependent on 

 dereliction or negleel of personal duly, in so far also as it 



