Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie.

  • Fernie, William Thomas, 1830-
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal simples, approved for modern uses of cure / by W.T. Fernie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PREFACE. In our eager boyish days, when a travelling exhibition of wild beasts came to visit the neighbourhood, with an imposing procession of elephants, camels, monkeys, lion-tamers, gilded cars, and other multiform fascinations, its lively brass band on the boards outside, and its voluble showman on the front steps, were, to our thinking, indispensable attractions before we sought zoo- logical instruction within the big tent. But, of course, a doctor's medicinal menagerie is a much more serious affair; and far be it from us to announce the arrival thereof with beat of drum, or flourish of trumpet, in any such mountebank fashion ! None the less we take leave to temper the grave occasion with some light prefatory patter before becoming didactic, and solemn, in the body of our book. *' Dicit enim citius, meminitque libentius illud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat, et veueratur. Men see a joke when to a sermon blind : And laughter's lessons long possess the mind. *'Risus enim Diviim, atqite hominum est wterna voluptas.'' All the world allows that laughter is an eternal dehght of both gods and men.