Excerpt from An Inaugural Lecture on Botany, Considered as a Science and as a Branch of Medical Education: Read in King's College, London, May 8th, 1843 Of all the natural-history sciences botany is the most advanced and the most pursued. From an early period in man's history the attention of the observing had been directed towards the vegetable kingdom, partly from the facilities for the study of plants - assembled as they are in their various kinds abundantly around us - and partly on account of their virtues, real or ...
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Excerpt from An Inaugural Lecture on Botany, Considered as a Science and as a Branch of Medical Education: Read in King's College, London, May 8th, 1843 Of all the natural-history sciences botany is the most advanced and the most pursued. From an early period in man's history the attention of the observing had been directed towards the vegetable kingdom, partly from the facilities for the study of plants - assembled as they are in their various kinds abundantly around us - and partly on account of their virtues, real or imaginary. In the olden time the herborist and the physician were one in nations as yet unemerged from their infant or barbarous state they are one still. The objects of the study were at first purely utilitarian. Fanciful resemblances to the forms or symptoms of disease furnished the principles of botanical arrangement. But continued inquiry, even when conducted upon false principles, led at length from empiricism to science, and the herborist ripened into the botanist. A new light broke upon him. Plants were no longer to be regarded as mere depositaries of decoctions and elixirs, but were to be examined for their own sakes. The wonders of their strue ture were exposed the variety of their forms compared and classified. Their lives were written. The vital processes, continually going on within their bodies, were explored; their affinities with each other and with the animal kingdom investigated; and their history became a store, from whence could be drawn at pleasure numberless admirable examples of the perfection of design in creation, and of the benevolence and omniscience of the Creator. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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