is the parent of the third."

We believe the time is coming when those maladies which are now
considered fatal will be readily cured--when disease will be disarmed of
its terrors. To be successful, a physician must be independent, free
from all bigotry, having no narrow prejudice against his fellow-men,
liberal, accepting new truths from whatever source they come, free from
restrictions of societies, and an earnest laborer in the interests of
the Great Physician.

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CHAPTER II.

REMEDIES FOR DISEASE.


It will be our aim, throughout this book, to prescribe such remedies as
are within the easy reach of all, and which may be safely employed. Many
of those of the vegetable class are indigenous to this country, and may
be procured in their strength and purity, at the proper season, by those
residing in the localities where they grow, while all others advised may
be obtained at any good drug-store. We shall endeavor to recommend such
as can be procured and prepared with the least trouble and expense to
the patient, when it is believed that they will be equally as
efficacious as more expensive medicines.