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