Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin.

  • Coffin, A. I. (Albert Isaiah)
Date:
[1851]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical botany : a course of lectures delivered at Sussex Hall, during 1850 / by A.I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    9/244
    to this country a stranger, alike unknowing and unknown. Having in early life been educated in that same profession, and in our own case seen all their skill and knowledge applied in vain, at the same time also seen and felt the benefits of the skill and knowledge of a child of nature, we came prepared not only to expose the fallacies of the faculty on the one side, but to establish for the benefit of the country, the eternal truths of Me- dical Botany on the other. We met as was natural, even in this country, in the first part of our career, many obstacles, which of course retarded our pro- gress, but by a steady perseverance have at last overcome them all, and at this moment stand on an eminence that we scarcely dared to have anticipated at the commencement of our labours in this quarter of the globe. During the space of six years we have had the gratification of seeing parsed through tiie press twenty editions of our Guide to Health in the English language, as well as four in Welsh and two in the French. In addition to the above