Refuse continued properties

Now, then [continued Berzelius], it is clear that the columbic acid of Mr. Hatchett, having been composed of oxide of tantalum and tungstic acid, which communicated to it a part of its specific properties, it is clear, I say, that Mr. Hatchett shares the discovery of tantalum in almost the same manner as MM. Fourcroy and Vauquelin share with Mr. Tennant the honor of having discovered osmium ( Thomson s System, Ed. IV, Vol. 1, p. 200), and I suppose that you will not refuse to render the same justice to the work of the Swede Ekeberg that you have just rendered to the Englishman Tennant. ... 

After about 20 years of searching, Meade met with success. He refused to further identify the plant, but passed out free samples of the brownish, viscous fluid obtained. Skin cancers of every type go into remission, rashes disappear as does psoriasis, black moles, the raised, blackened welts caused by childhood strep infections also tick, mosquito and other insect bites and stings. Meade was given encouragement by some in the local medical community, with the opinion that perhaps 98% of all plants have not yet been checked out for medicinal properties. Karen McMahon, a biological science professor at the nearby University of Tulsa and coauthor of a botany textbook, noted that most plants have not yet been identified by science, and the quest continues for new medicinal plants, which contain chemicals no scientist could dream up. Inasmuch as a plant cannot be patented, about all Meade could do at this time was give samples away. 

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