6 



hires, in a way the most necessary to 

 their wants, and most interesting to their 

 feelings. You will be enabled to confer 

 that which sick kings would fondly pur- 

 chase with their diadems; that which 

 wealth cannot command, nor state nor 

 rank bestow. You will be able to alle- 

 viate or remove disease, the most insup- 

 portable of human afflictions, and thereby 

 give health, the most invaluable of human 

 blessings. 



I shall not, however, gentlemen, waste 

 your time in expatiating on this topic, 

 because you will feel much more than 

 I can utter, and because all that can be 

 said or thought of it, seems concentrated 

 in one brief but enthusiastic sentence of 

 Cicero, which therefore I quote. In 

 nullare, propius ad deos homines acce- 

 dunt, quam salutem hominibus dando. 



