Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Medical Profession and Modern Chemistry: An Oration Delivered Before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, at Its Annual Convention, June 4, 1856
Permit me first then, to ask your attention to the condition Of medication before the chemist Offered aid to the physician and taught him how to extract the proximate principles of vegetables and to com bine minerals SO as to avoid the formation Of inert or injurious com pounds. This is the most conspicuous instance in which chemistry has liberally Opened her laboratory to the physician, bidding him en ter freely and ask boldly for what he wants, withholding nothing that lies within her power to give, frankly acknowledging where that pow er ceases, and in all things (when properly understood, ) bringing aid and assistance to his professional labors. Not invested with mys tery nor enwrapt with forbidding robes, not requiring consultation with the stars nor caring for ominous conjunctions in the heavens, not demanding heavy pecuniary sacrifices nor laying weighty in junctions on perfect freedom of action. It fully unfolds a complete armament of remedies Which can be made available in proper at tacks ou disease.
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