but, on the contrary, that its invariable effect is to lessen their force, and frequently to vanquish them entirely? Surely it is not. Almost every one of the innumerable host of ills that assail mankind, when searched into in its causes and connections, gives us new assurance of this consolatory truth. In the same proportion as the arts and sciences, as morals and true refinement, advance and approach perfection, are the means multiplied by which human life is assured against enemies both from within and from without. True knowledge and true good always go hand in hand. In the old Grecian mythology light was held to be joy-to be bliss also; Phœbus Apollo, who illumined the world, was likewise the healer-to him was the pæan, the song at once of joy and thanksgiving, upraised. What antiquity, in mythic foreboding, announced, in the lapse of millenniums is made manifest. The more humanity attains to the knowledge and the evolution of all its capabilities, the more surely will the full harmony of corporeal existence also be unfolded. It may, with every reason, be said, therefore, that intelligence is not only synonymous with moral power, but also with bodily health. Access to the treasures of mind is denied to none; the art of printing, and our educational institutions, place participation in this highest good within reach of all. Medicine has not lagged behind the other evangiles of enlightened humanity; on the contrary, she has ever been foremost in the race, where the object was to enlighten and to raise; and as her purpose has still been to root out disease, and to lessen its powerto help the sick and the suffering, to confirm the healthy and the strong-so has she also striven to make her truths common property, irrefragable evidences of civilization. THE END. WILSON AND OGILVY, 57, SKINNER STREET, SNOWHILL, LONDON. Works on Subjects of PRACTICAL MEDICINE, BY DR. WILLIS. ON THE FUNCTIONAL DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND SUBORDINATE SYSTEM. 8vo. London, 1838. A Second Edition of this work, much extended and improved, has for some time been in preparation by the author, and will be published towards the end of the year, under the Title of A TREATISE ON THE FUNCTIONAL AND ORGANIC DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND SYSTEM SUBORDINATE. ON THE TREATMENT OF STONE BY MEDICAL AND MECHANICAL MEANS. 8vo. London, 1842. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CUTANEOUS DISEASE: A Series of Delineations of the Affections of the Skin in their more interesting and frequent forms; With a Practical Summary of their Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment; Including appropriate Formula. These Illustrations are comprised in 94 Plates, with the Text opposite. The Drawings are after Nature, and carefully coloured. Folio. London, 1841. |