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18 RESTORATIVE MEDICINE. follow. Arduous indeed it is, and tangled, yet leading always on, and much freer from pitfalls than that direct empirical method of trying reme- dies which Hippocrates has so emphatically pro- nounced "slippery." Science may guide us slowly, but she never guides us backwards.

In no direction does there seem a more favor- able opening for experiment, at the present day, than in that to which the name of Harvey is for- ever attached. The mysterics of the circulation are now open, to be unravelled by new instruments of precision of yearly growing ingenuity. The improved microscope, the ophthalmoscope, the sphygmograph, and the dynamometer, may help lesser wits to make discoveries of which Harvey would have been proud: while the use of chloro- form removes the serious objection urged by hu- manity against experiments on animals. We are not asleep: our Sanderson is justifying his scien- tific surname, by devoting to the increase of phy- siological knowledge months and years during

"with an Exhortation to the Fellows and Members of the said College, to search and study out the secrets of nature by way of experiment."-HARVEY'S Deed of Gift, MS.
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