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Essays and addressesOdium Theologicum? Well, yes, I suppose that universally reprobated thing is bad enough; but, credo experto, Odium Theologicum is not in it with Odium Medicum. List to the tale of Odium Medi- cine and turned his mind "to study the great BOOK of Xaturc, and contemplate the wisdom of natures God, instead of conning over the speculative whims and ambiguous nonsense which encumbers the vol- umes of writers on the laws of medical science" and this was the beginning of his troubles not fully to be realized for more than half a century. After some fourteen years spent in study in that great college, he was confident of his ability to heal the sick of all kinds by the medicines he was able to manufacture "from vegetable substances, with- out the aid of any chemical proces" He strenu- ously denies having anything in common with Sam- uel Thomson, his School or system ; according to his own account, he was a "botanist," a "botanical physician," sui generi I think, however, that no one can compare the respective medical works of Odium Theologicum? Well, yes, I suppose that universally reprobated thing is bad enough; but, credo experto, Odium Theologicum is not in it with Odium Medicum. List to the tale of Odium Medi- cum in old New York. Of William Barber, the birthplace, like the birth- place of Homer, is unknown; the date is about 1760, and the place somewhere in New England. next |