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teacher  is  recognized  by  the  thousands  who  have  benefited  by  the 
instruction  which  he  has  so  conscientiously  given  for  nearly  thirty-five 
years.  Indeed  he  may  be  said  to  be  a  teacher  of  teachers,  for  most 
of  the  successul  Professors  of  Pharmacy  in  America  to-day  have 
been  pupils  of  his  at  some  time  during  their  careers. 
As  an  extemporaneous  speaker  he  has  few  equals  in  professional 
life,  his  ready  fund  of  apt  illustrations  and  his  keen  wit  rendering 
him  almost  incomparable  in  this  respect. 
STRUCTURAL  PLANT  RELATIONSHIPS.1 
By  John  Uri  Lloyd,  Ph.D.,  Ph.M. 
Their  Record. — Among  the  earliest  remedial  agents,  as  well  as  the 
most  useful  remedies  of  the  present,  are  plant  products  and  plant 
agents.  From  the  dawn  of  the  study  of  medicine  to  the  threshold 
of  the  nineteenth  century,  the  most  conspicuous  of  all  remedies  have 
been  those  formulated  under  the  influence  of  vegetable  life.  The 
simples  of  the  aborigines  of  all  climes  and  lands,  the  remedies  of 
domestic  medicine,  as  well  as  those  of  empiricism  past  and  present, 
the  agents  that  science  most  values  and  most  studies,  have  been  and 
yet  are  plant  structures.  Every  country  ot  the  globe  contributes 
thereto.  Every  people  of  the  earth  partakes  thereof.  The  phar- 
macopoeia of  every  country,  the  materia  medica  of  all  the  schools  in 
medicine  past  and  present,  give  their  best  care  to  the  remedial  action 
of  vegetable  structures.  These  have  ever  been  the  established,  the 
cherished  remedies  of  all  nations,  and  are  no  more  to  be  displaced 
by  artificial  preparations  from  outside,  than  are  vegetable  foods  to 
be  replaced  by  synthetics  evolved  by  the  chemist. 
Let  us  not  neglect  to  credit  the  value  of  inorganics  in  life  con- 
servation. No  man  will  'deny  the  value  of  minute  amounts  of  sodium 
and  potassium  compounds,  of  chlorine  salts,  of  earths,  of  minerals  in 
foods.  Nor  will  he,  if  he  thinks,  undervalue  the  rational  use  of  such 
in  medicine,  where  either  alone,  or  as  integral  parts  of  plant  struc- 
tures, they  serve  well  their  part.  But  as  no  reflecting  man  will  pre- 
sume to  restrict  his  foods  wholly  to  these  unorganized  substances, 
so  no  balanced  mind,  informed  concerning  the  record  of  remedial 
1  Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  National  Eclectic  Medical  Association,  St. 
Louis,  1904,  and  contributed  by  the  author. 
