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things in a modern, scientific spirit absolutely freed 

 from sectarian bias. 



Some one is going to do these things; and we can 

 all rejoice when it is well done. 



I truly believe that the botanic materia medica 

 will then come into its own; that a large class of 

 modern and scientific practitioners will use these 

 drugs vastly more effectively than they were ever 

 used before; and that in so doing the incidence of 

 ordinary morbidity will be much reduced in potency 

 to maintain our present high mortality, and med- 

 icine be enriched by a modern gift from the ancients 

 of our craft. 



