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Excerpt from Domestic Medicine: A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine, Adapted to the Reformed System, Comprising a Materia Medica, With Numerous Illustrations
There has been much done to put the people in pos session of a knowledge of the means of preserving their health, - many excellent treatises have been dedicated to them, and numerous journals and medical papers have been issued for their information, and it is grati fying to see how much good there has been done how much suffering has been avoided and expense saved. Still there are some in the profession who are opposed to the plan of committing a knowledge of medicine to the people. They seem to think that it will lower the character and dignity of our profession, and that con sequently our usefulness will be measurably destroyed. But the results are far otherwise. Real and important knowledge has no such tendency - it elevates rather than lowers the confidence and respect of its possessor.
It has been supposed too that mischiefs would result from an attempt on the part of the people to prescribe for themselves. But they ever have prescribed more or less for themselves, and it must be supposed that they ever will do so; and it is difficult to see how a knowl edge to do prqrerly, what will be done at all events, will give rise to mischief. Novelty is the food of fancy, and so long as any matter, the existence of which is known, remains in mystery, the human mind will never cease to pry into it. Let the mind once fully grasp a thing and its novelty is gone.
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