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edicines of whose potency the advertised testimonials Ante, 1.37. (owing to his spontaneous trust in human nature) had persuaded him; and often, as would appear, rather against a rainy day than for present need, for they remained unopened in his closet. Or, if not unopened, their contents were frequently very slightly diminished, for my father carried his immediatism into medicine: it was instant relief he sought, and he was impatient of gradual recovery. A few doses determined him. In May, 1836, he wrote to my mother from Providence, of Ms. May 5. being about to visit a botanical doctor, having more willingness to try a new medicine than faith in its efficacy. It may do me good, he added; it certainly will not if I do not try it. There was in this experimenting a trace of both the Yankee and the reformer, and I class it with my father's fondness for labor-saving inventions, which he indulged, in a spirit of domestic benevolence, as freely as his means would permit. The name