The most, pertinent and startling question ever asked is this:—"* What is truth A Roman Governor propounded under cireamnstancer which greatly worried and perplexed his of mind. And he was not the first man or the last—not by So far as I know th here has been no satisfactory copie (radicals and come-outers of jerts) fancy that in this, the tail end of a rather braggart and conceited century, they have flushed a fair-sized covey of truths by firing speculative shot-guns into every wayside bash and box.
But have they done it? No, gentle reader, no.
They have put up crows and sparrows, the same crows that picked the bones of the cave dwellers, and the same sparrows that sold two fora farthing in the time of Pilate. There were plenty of fools of old, and there are plenty now. 'The ancient sloctors, indeed, prescribed some horrible stuffs as medicine they used electuaries of vipers' flesh and recommended pomegranate seeds for toothache because those seeds resemble human teeth. Very and silly, to be sure, this sound if you wanted to find things that Hcome very near matching them in modera practice, I coult show you where to look. On my table T have a list of about 300 new "remedies" introduced to a suffering world within the past twelve month. "Must be some good ones among them," do you say Possibly. Time will tell. Meanw stick to whatever sure of, how to cure sliseases," said Celsus, " by ex-Perience, not by reasoning."
Some of the reatest troths in medicine," said a learned teh doctor, came by the humblest means; not by synthesis or vei section, ut by the observations of peasants ant the experitnents of motherly women.
Concerning a medicine discovered by one such won an, thousands of stories have been told and letters written. Here is an example For many years I have suffered from indigestion and weakness. I seemed to have no energy fr anything. I had a poor appetite, and whut little fond I ate caused me violent pains at the chest. and between the shoulders. Frequently I had attacks of giddiness, and when I stooped I suffered from an unnatural rush of blood to the head... The pain which I was called upon to bear was often very severe; it affected all parts of f{Hiscetlancous Entelligence.
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