INTRODUCTION. 5 
carefully noted down the name of this valuable medicine, and 
said he would use it in similar cases. 
Some of our readers may call in question our ability to 
write a creditable work on medicine, doubtless comparing us 
unfavourably with the master minds of the past, who may be 
said to stand as giants in front of us, who are but dwarts 
beside them. Granted that this is true, still as dwarfs on the 
snoulders of giants can see further and more than the giants, 
so we, having their experience, together with what we have 
been able to glean ourselves, can take our position along with 
them as disseminators of useful knowledge for the benefit of 
our race. We have one serious fault to find with most 
medical books, both botanic and regular, namely, that the 
great source of blessing and healing is almost ignored, namely 
God, who gives us all things richly to enjoy and employ to 
the benefit of one another. It is but right for us to use the 
means, but we should never forget that hfe and death are in 
the hands of our Creator. We cannot close our introduction 
better than by reminding all that our faculties, means of 
knowledge, experience, food, medicine, and all that we have 
and are comes from our Divine Benefactor, who, concerning 
the destiny of our race has declared that in the age to come 
sickness and allunhappiness, even deathitselfshall be abolished 
for ever. Amen. 
We are indebted to the following authors for some of the 
valuable information that will be found in our pages; (we 
have now their works in stock and can highly recommend 
them):—Dr. Coffin’s Botanic Guide to Health, Dr Fox’s 
Working Man’s do., Dr. Skelton’s do., Dr. Stevens’s, Prof. 
Brown’s, Dr. Beach’s, Dr. Gunn’s, Dr. Robinson’s, and others. 
Our motto is to learn from every writer truth that may be 
useful to us in doing good to suffering humanity. 
