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The imposition practiced by medical men in writing their prescriptions in Latin, and the evils resulting from it by the ignorance or carelessness of apothecaries or their clerks, who may know nothing of the language in which the prescription is written—the mistakes of whom have destroyed thousands of lives, are too obvious to be misunderstood.
Having spent a large proportion of the last fifteen years of my life in examining the different medical theories, and observing the results of those theories carried out in practice, I arrived at conclusions that were to me startling—that were painful to contemplate—that could not fail to inspire in every benevolent man a fixed determination to wage an uncompromising war against systems productive of so much sorrow, misery, and death.
Every head of a family ought to understand the medicinal properties of a sufficient number of roots and plants to cure any disease that might occur in his or her family, and teach their children the same.