| 1859 - 472 pages
...efficacious." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, after having excepted specifics and palliative medicines, says, " If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." In addition to the cures effected by allopathic physicians... | |
| 1876 - 846 pages
...to apply ; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which produce the miracle of aenesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." 0. W. Homes, MD, Currents ami Counter-Currents in Medical... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 pages
...throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover, and is hardly needed to apply [Note C~\ ; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes. But to justify this proposition, I must add that the... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 656 pages
...single mouthful. Dr. Holmes thinks that if the whole Materia Medica, as now used, with a few exceptions, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. Dr. Holmes states also the remarkable fact, that the simple... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 600 pages
...single mouthful. Dr. Holmes thinks that if the whole Materia Medica, as now used, with a few exceptions, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the hetter for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. Dr. Holmes states also the remarkable fact, that... | |
| 1865 - 552 pages
...Throw out opium," he says, " throw out a few specifics, which our art did not discover, throw out wine and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." " When doctors disagree, who shall decide ?" The celebrated... | |
| 1869 - 498 pages
...importance, when he says, and the italics are his own, " I firmly believe that if the whole mnteria medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind." We print this month a double number of the Gazette, in order to give a more complete account... | |
| Alonzo Ames Miner - 1867 - 134 pages
...Society : " Throw out opium, throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover; throw out wine, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." I do not undertake to say that this is a sound practical... | |
| Alonzo Ames Miner - 1867 - 136 pages
...which our art did not discover; throw out wine, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica,...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." I do not undertake to say that this is a sound practical... | |
| 1868 - 834 pages
...throw out opium, throw out a few specifics, throw oat wine which is food, and the vapors which produce anaesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole...bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes." Further on in the same address, he says, "but if the... | |
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