... rarity of true friendship, but this must be a gloomy libel on human nature, for sincere friends, if not as plentiful as blackberries, are at least as numerous as newspapers. We put it to the experience of all readers of the public journals—either daily ...

... yearly emerge on the crowded arena of therapeutics, where it has of late become a proverb that 31.ID.'s are as plenty as blackberries; more so, it might almost be said, since numbers of the former arc to be found, where the latter only sparsely glow-viz ...