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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture on the Claims of the Materia Medica: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, October 10th, 1859
It would be pertinent to claim for our branch a further extension, and exhibit in what manner it will become the most appropriate introduction to the pursuits of horticulture, agriculture, and many of the manufacturing arts, especially those connected with the nicer opera tions of chemistry; and as in the crude state the disem bowelled earth furnishes potent agents for medicinal application, I might expatiate upon the inducement given to the prosecution of geology; but I refrain, and desire to turn to other considerations.
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