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correctly tracing their genesis or origin ( fi veram et 

 genuinam morborum Historiam"}. 



2. A reliable and proven method of healing (" cer- 

 tam confirmatamque Medendi MetJiodum"^). 



3. The discovery of specific remedies (" remediorum 

 nempe specificorum inventio") 



It is my pleasing task to give an outline (though 

 only incidentally, as so far as they belong to my sub- 

 ject, which is purely biological) of these discoveries. 



For a full account of the system, which is at once a 

 simple and easy Practice, and also a THEORY in the 

 full and grand original sense of that word Ocupia* a 

 BEHOLDING of the very truth and method of Nature,* 

 I must refer the reader to the discoverer himself. 



For all in this chapter, and indeed in this little 

 book, that is not marked fully as quotation, with refer- 

 ences given to the source from which it is extracted, I,, 

 the writer, am alone responsible. Even the headings 

 and arrangement of the extracts are entirely my own, 

 so I must in fairness refer the reader to the work from 

 which these extracts are taken, and warn him that, 

 although I have myself independently verified every 

 statement contained in these extracts, and seen with 

 my own eyes all herein described as seen, and proved 

 by my own experiment, or in my own experience, 

 every fact herein described as fact, it is only a small 



* Such as Sydenham attributes to Hippocrates: "Atque in 

 his fere stetit magna ilia Divini Senis 0eo>pia, non ab irrito 

 lascivientis phantasise conamine desumpta, ceu vana segrorum 

 insomnia, sed legitimam exhibens historiam earum Naturae 

 operationum quas in hominum morbis . edit. Cum vero dicta 

 nihil esset aliud quam EXQUISITA NATURAE DESCRIPTIO 

 . ." (Op. Om., p. 14,) 



