Excerpt from Folk-Medicine, Vol. 4: A Chapter in the History of CultureBut, while this is so, it must be obvious that no progress can be made at all unless we grapple with such facts as we have. We have some data to go upon. The possibility of arriving at definite rules in other branches has been proved, over and over again, by the students at home and on the Continent, who have presented the world with studies at once exact and liberal exact, because they are the fruit of untiring zeal in seeking authentic sources of information, liberal, because the bare facts have been collectively illuminated by a light which could have had no existence had generalization not been attempted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.