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his profession ; this sort of botany, in this respect, plays the 
same part in modern medical teaching, that the botanical 
course which taught the Natural Orders, &c. did of old. 
The botanical teaching of my day was the Student's 
first schooling in diagnosis, and it taught him medical botany, 
and the origin and history of drugs. Now, diagnosis is 
taught clinically, in a way it was not in my time, and a 
knowledge of drugs and their origin is left to the druggist ; 
and botany is made the introduction to organic chemistry 
and physiology in the application to the problems of life in 
health and disease. 
Our careers are very different from this, and you are 
making your mark in yours ; would it not be better to 
stick to it ? or only to leave it for something in the same 
line? 
