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Of all the modes in which men employ their time and energies, there are few more elevated in their aims or more bene ficial to mankind than the practice of the healing art. We may say, in truth, that there is but one other profession which excels that of the human healer: and it does so, simply because it has for its object the present culture and well-being and the future safety and happiness of man's undying self. One of the greatest and most original thinkers of the present day, however, places Medicine above all other professions: thus, Carlyle, in his Latter day Pamphlets, observes that the profession of the human healer is radically a sacred one and connected with the highest priesthoods, or rather being itself the out-come and acme of all priest hoods and divinest conquests of intellect here below.
The great object of Medicine is to com bat disease, and what does this signify?
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