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2 system or in the cellular tissue, in .the gall or in the
3 b&rider, in the spleen, in the liver, in the kidneys, in
4 the stomach, or men in the intestinal canal, we might
5 then be able to detect their modus operandi also.
6 In the Bengal Dispensaiory, p. 1G2, it is sail! of
7 Ranunculeee—“They are extremely acrid and corrosive ;
8 and so unmanageable, as to he excluded from medical
9 uko by all modern practitioners,” ft would, indeed, be
10 much better to desist from using such strong medica¬
11 ments altogether, when they are employed in undiluted
12 doses only, it is really pitiable when all other arts
13 and sciences have mode such important progress, that
14 medicine alone should continue stationary; that its
15 professors, from an unwillingness to investigate the
16 nature, virtue, or proper use of medicinal distances,
17 should fancy themselves hound to condemn simple yet
18 efficacious plants to oblivion, as things which providence
19 lias co ated for the delight of our eyes only, and which
20 are sure to injure us, should we attempt to use them!
21 Almost.all the plants which were employed formerly,
22 have met with this fate. Where are the Salvia, the Ruta,
23 Euphrasia, rmperatoiia? \s for the deadly poisons.
24 Calomel and Opium! these glitter as fatally brilliant in
25 the East Indian medicinal horizon, as they do among
26 English physicians. IIpvv beautiful and true are die
27 lines of Shakespeare —
28 <), mickle is the powerful grade, that lies
29 In plants herbs, stones, and their true qualities :
30 For laoght so,vile, that on the earili doth live,
31 Brit ,o the earth some special good doth give;
32 Nor aught so good, but strained fn>m that’fair use,
33 Tic volts from true birth; stumbling on abuse.