1 that this niedum~sysk>u was the best, an,l I now COn li -
2 ileotSy recommend it as the most efficient.
3 “ Magna cat veritas et. prievalcbit”
4 “Truth is mighty, ant! must prevail."
5 Besides other advantages which this system possesses,
6 the remedies are administered in so agreeable a form.,
7 that they may be taken without the consciousness of
8 their boingyh.'dictnal. Tills is worthy' ot attention, as it
9 removes one of the many difficulties which obstruct the
10 way of the physician, in the exercise of his profession.
11 He has often to contend with prejudices and notions
12 imbibed in early infancy, and to attend to idiosyncrasies,
13 lest be should increase instead of removing evils, fn
14 children, he has to struggle with obstinacy, ill-humor
15 caused by pain, &c. In the treatment of females, lie
16 must never lose sight of their nervous mobility (natural
17 or affected) which' often becomes constitutional; their
18 greater sensitiveness, their stronger irritability, and
19 their more delicate organisation'} and if, eventually, he
20 is fortunate enough to conquer all these difficulties,
21 still he may not cry victory , until ho has acquired the
22 art of removing from his prescriptions all that is nau¬
23 seous or disagreeable.
24 It is a palpable act of cruelty in mothers to force
25 their infants to swallow remedies which are repugnant
26 to their taste, in the mistaken notion that bitter pains
27 must 1), removed by bitter medicines. Nature, in
28 placing at our disposal such vast stores of medi¬
29 cinal treasures, surely never conceived the revengeful
30 codon of punishing those who had recourse to their
31 aid. it is • more consonant with reason to suppose,