Method of memorizing the materia medica / by A.L. Monroe.

  • Monroe, A. L. (Andrew Leight), 1856-
Date:
1882
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Credit: Method of memorizing the materia medica / by A.L. Monroe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    INTRODUCTORY. AX observer would find little pleasure in contemplating' the shapeless mass upon which the sculptor begins — the un- cultivated eye failing to understand the possibilities lying dormant in the rude block of marble until the skillful strokes of the artisan begin to transform its crude propor- tions into a something with a semblance of light and shade. Then attention would be invited, and as curves and outlines became more delicate and more gracefully rounded, all else would be forgot in the contempla- tion of gradually awakening beauty. So a study possessing the capabilities of becoming the most interesting in science seems at first a huge and uninviting mass; indeed, until the nucleus around which the science is to assume form and symmetry is established, continues a veritable pons asi- norum. 'T is toward the lightening of this first load, as well as the consequent hasten-