Excerpt from Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica: Biographies of John King, M.D., Andrew Jackson Howe, A. B., M.D., And John Milton Scudder, M.D.; Accompanied by Many Valuable and Historical Portraits and Other Illustrations

Howe, who in educational directions had an advantage few physicians enjoyed. No field in the natural history section of science was too recon dite for the pen of this man, whose specialty was that of surgery, in which for many decades he held an enviable reputation and created a national record.

Into the lifework of these two men came as a co-laborer the subject of the next biography contained in this Bulletin, an enthusiastic actor in the betterment of medicine, John Milton Scudder, M. D., whose por trait faces the opening page of his biography. Hand in hand with the closing energies of John King, whose efforts had been spent largely in the evolution of the primitive American materia medica and practice, came at an opportune moment this wonderfully gifted therapeutist, Scudder. Grasping the problem of therapeutic progress as it had not before been comprehended, Scudder threw his whole life and energy into the evolution that may appropriately be called an epoch-feature in Amer ican medication. Close friend-s were we, made doubly so by necessity, for the success of the principles that Scudder enunciated, namely, small doses of pleasant medicines, selected for their specific action, depended largely upon the care, attention, study, and research devoted by myself in the direction of the pharmacy of the remedial agents of the American materia medica. Very close were we in this crusade in behalf of clean medicine, clean surroundings, and kindness to the sick (now fairly con summated). At that-date, the most crucial period of the evolution of the American practice of medicine and the American materia medica, we together worked, sacrificed, and were contented.

And thus, as I turn the pages of this Bulletin of the Lloyd Library and meet the faces of these comrades of old and read that which is written by and about these three men, my mind turns back into those troublous times. Uprise again, not only the faces herein pictured, but those of others concerned in historic incidents and events that be sprinkled the strenuous paths of those who, comprehended by few, made lifelong sacrifices in the people's behalf.

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