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Excerpt from An Investigation of the Properties of the Liriodendron Tulipifera, or Poplar-Tree I should conceive a physician of the first talents more laudably employed, in ascertaining the properties Of the humblest plant, that smiles in our forests, than in building a fragile system, however superb, which for a moment is admired, then ridiculed, and then tottersinto ruins. When we east our eyes over the sciences conneƩled with the heal ing art, the prospeƩi assures us, that all sy stems of me dicine are, like their authors, destined to die. The progressive state of knowledge, which will probably be perpetual in those branches, must necessarily effe t their destruction soon after they are...
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