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XXV 111 " Call the vale?, and bid tlieih lutiier cast Their bells, and Oow'rets of a thousand hues, Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, aud wanfoa winds, and gushing brooks; On whose fresh lap, the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes. That on the green turf suck the honied showers. And purple all the ground with vernal flowers."
INTRODUCTION TO BOTANY. I. On the Use of Botany. X HE use and pleasure of studying botany have been so" long acknowledged, that it may seem perfectly superfluous to discourse upon that subject ; but a slight sketch of the use and pleasure accruing by this study is here given, in order to convince those students, who have not yet reflected upon the subject, that in bestowing their time, their labour, or their money, upon the acquirement of this science, they will not court an ungrateful mistress, but one who will amply reward them for the pains they take in acquiring her. The greater part of those who study botany, are personsof the medical profession, and of course the use of botany in medicine is the first to be considered. It will therefore be necessary, before any further progress is made, to advert to the great difference between practising in large cities and sea-port towns on the one hand, and in country villages on the other. To the former merchants resort, and the warehouses are filled with the choicest drugs of foreign regions ; the poverty induced by the vicissitudes of commerce requires alleviation from the charity ot the rich, hos- pitals and dispensaries arise, and become medical schools. The time of the practitioners being fully occupied by the denseness of the population, they find it more convenient to use the drugs in the warehouses, than to collect themselves the indigenous productions of the surrounding country ; hence they regard with indifference whether the drug be native or foreign, and this indifference, or rather preference for foreign drugs, passes of course into the pharmacopoeias published in those cities. VOL. I, B
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XXV 111<br />
" Call the vale?, and bid tlieih lutiier cast<br />
Their bells, and Oow'rets of a thousand hues,<br />
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use<br />
Of shades, aud wanfoa winds, and gushing brooks;<br />
On whose fresh lap, the swart star sparely looks,<br />
Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes.<br />
That on the green turf suck the honied showers.<br />
And purple all the ground with vernal flowers."
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