Menu
1
150
300
450
600
750

Essays and addresses

2 Frankfort street, No- vember, 1829.

I said "delightful book," and so it is ; but it con- tains a painful account of the malignant persecution of the ardent author by "the faculty," "the great beast with seven heads and ten horns," who, busy with "meditations," left "the humble task of nursing and curing the poor sufferers.

To be per- formed by those honest and persevering souls, whom they sneeringly call empirics and quack" This infamous crew got an Act passed by the Legislature of New York in 1827, "subjecting every person to fines and imprisonment, like a common J For some account of the celebrated Empiric, Samuel Thomson, his School (not yet quite extinct) and his theories and practice, see an Article: The Botanic Family Physician, by William Renwick Riddell, LL.

, F.

Edin.