Author: G. Archie Stockwell

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-23

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781334703522

Excerpt from Detroit Medical Journal, Vol. 1: July, 1901 That Nature revels in variety is a well established fact. It is proverbial that no two leaves in a forest exactly coincide any more than any two faces in a population. Yet it is equally true that Nature's con sistency, amounting to uniformity, along certain well-defined lines, may be classed among those eternal verities that form the basis of all true scientific deduction. There is no occasion for surprise, there fore, when we find identical endemic dis eases and similar vegetable growths fur nishing specific antidotes or cures for them, bridging the wide Atlantic, and hav ing their locale and habitat in Africa and America between the same parallels. Such is, in fact, the case; and it seems to be one of those merciful provisions of Provi dence that, somehow, are not so generally recognized by man as they ought to be. What is even less generally recognized, and which it is my purpose to here indi cate, is that the aboriginal races of both continents along these zones have quite independently discovered, and practically applied, like remedies to like diseases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.