"Ode to Health;

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Is Likely To be Good For Disease."
J.C. Jackson in "Laws of Life".
Dr. Rush, on the cause of failure in medical practice,
makes the inquiry, why ninety nine cases out of the hundred
are lost, of those which are called the curable diseases?
He compared the present system of medical practice,
to an "unroofed temple, with a cracked foundation."
Again he says, "We have assisted in multiplying diseases;
we have done more; we have increased their mortality."
A most lamentable confession for such a man as
Dr. Rush to have to make. It however but soo well
agrees, with those eminent men whose testimony I have previously given. And let it be remembered that the
testimony does not come from poor illiterate and
disappointed quaks: but from men exalted to the highest rank in the medical profession.
Sir Astly Cooper's salary is said one year to have
over reached one hundred thousand pounds, and that
he had received a thousand guineas for performing
one surgical operation. Perhaps the following
statement will best help to explain his disappoint-
ment. On a certain ocasion, addressing a class of
medical students he remarked: "Gentlemen, we should

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