. A miscellany presented to John Macdonald Mackay, July, 1914. plants. It is to Grews credit that he is only partially captured bythe empiric medicine of his time, the history of which is at oncethe most pathetic and amusing in the records of natural barefaced lack of connection between a disease and themeans proposed for its subdual, does ocasionally distract thisearnest soul. And yet the necessity of rifling the universe inthe attempt, of using materials of the most varied and oftenoffensive character in the hope of casually lighting upon aspecific, attaches his sympathies and be
. A miscellany presented to John Macdonald Mackay, July, 1914. plants. It is to Grews credit that he is only partially captured bythe empiric medicine of his time, the history of which is at oncethe most pathetic and amusing in the records of natural barefaced lack of connection between a disease and themeans proposed for its subdual, does ocasionally distract thisearnest soul. And yet the necessity of rifling the universe inthe attempt, of using materials of the most varied and oftenoffensive character in the hope of casually lighting upon aspecific, attaches his sympathies and beguiles his reason. Tohis generation an important function of the museum was thatit assembled that queer and heterogeneous assortment of naturalobjects which the craft and subtlety of the physician had groundup or boiled down in a frantic effort to alleviate the distressesof mankind. At times his orthodoxy is obviously strained whenhe cautions the patient to read Fienus Of the Power of Phancy,and a draught of a scruple of soft alabaster taken in milk is only. Museum of FREDERIK RUYSCH 1638—1731 ANATOMICAL MUSEUMS 313 approved in the absence of a more relevant remedy. On theother hand, the specious effrontery of powdered crabs clawsworked up with a jelly extracted from the skins of snakes subdueshis scepticism, nor does the cure of baldness appear difficult. if a wilk, being burnt, powdered, and mixed with old oil tothe consistence of glew be well rubbed into the refractoryscalp. Indeed the magic of the wilk shell declares itself inthe minor and vague respect of doing good if only it be usedas a drinking vessel, whilst the stomach of the ostrich sustainsits high reputation by dissolving the stone which is incapableof afflicting its digestion. The prevaiHng taint of cynicism,rather than his own humour, is perhaps responsible for thepassage in which he says that the stags tears are a thickend excretion from the inward angle of his eye. In colourand consistence almost like to mirr
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