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of medicine, largely by his own prescription. He is quite ignorant of physiology, wrote Quincy to Webb Ms. Jan. 13. in 1853, and has no belief in hygiene, or in anything pertaining to the body except quack medicines. That he has survived all he has taken is proof of an excellent constitution. . . . You remember his puff of Dr. C——'s Anti-Scrofulous Panacea, . . . in which he said that he felt it permeating the whole system in the most delightful manner. Permeating the system! said Hervey Weston, with the malice of a regular practitioner; why, it was the first time he had taken a glass of grog, and [he] did n't know how good it was! —some sort of spirits being the basis of all these sort of quackeries. The want of physiological instruction combined with my father's acquired distrust of authority, creeds, and schools to make him a thorough eclectic in matters medical. His first experiment was with Thomsonian remedies, and for these he retained a fondness to the last, and reg<