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62 The Floral King.
own cures. It ought to be ascertained from
whence accrues the violent colic with blood dis-
charge, their frequent headaches, their lumbago,
and their weak eyes, &c. It ought to be com-
putated what is the average longevity and what
sickness carries off the majority, when first proper
remedies could be prescribed.
‘* Here ought to be ascertained what kind of con-
tagious diseases some years, like the plague, carry
off the reindeers, that a remedy might be found, for
they are the foundation of economy, life, and well-
being of Lapland.
‘Here much might be enumerated, which I con-
sider unnecessary to do, because all these defects
arise from the same cause and can all be remedied
by the same means, viz: attention. As impossible
as it is to read a book without knowing the letters,
so impossible it is to solve the mysteries of nature
without knowledge of its objects. I have endeav-
oured, from the first day I came to the University,
to teach the students the knowledge of stones, ores,
different herbs and trees, animals, birds, fishes, and
worms, diet, and various kinds of diseases; I have
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