 | William Heiskell Deaderick - 1916 - 590 pages
...calomel than of any other drug that led Oliver Wendell Holmes to declare that, excepting a few drugs, "if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be...the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." During the cold stage blankets, hot drinks, and the external... | |
 | Beatrice Webb - 1917 - 112 pages
...this matter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote: " I firmly believe that if the whole material of medicine could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the sea!" In our own day Sir William Osier, the present Professor of... | |
 | Edwin Valentine Mitchell - 1917 - 216 pages
..."Counsel for the plaintiff quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes as saying that, 'if the whole materia medica was sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. ' We do not dispute that statement, for there may be some... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...in a lecture before the Harvard Medical School : " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea." Another medical writer, I think, suggested that it might be... | |
 | F.D. VAN AMBURGH - 1919 - 168 pages
...once, Holmes hit a high spot, and here is one : " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Holmes was right. Most men and nearly all women take too... | |
 | Fred De Witt Van Amburgh - 1919 - 168 pages
...than once, Holmes hit a high spot, and here is one: "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Holmes was right. Most men and nearly all women take too... | |
 | 1894 - 64 pages
...of the grave, expressed his belief that, saving one or two remedies, if all the materia niedlca was sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. If I may be allowed to dissent from such eminent authority... | |
 | Frederick Lawrence Rawson - 1920 - 816 pages
...lecture before the Harvard Medical School : " I firmly believe that if the whole lunfrriu uii'ifim co ild be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and the worse for the fishes"? Why in allopathy is a large 2.-, amount of a. drug given that... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...your play. WM. TOD HELMUTH — Ode to the Bacillus. I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica ai mankind and all the worse for the fishes. HOLMKH — ¡jfcttire before the Harvard Medical School.... | |
 | James Spottiswoode Taylor - 1922 - 318 pages
...unassuming frankness, that the doctors had done him 1 1 firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. OW HotMES. no good. His pages reflect a terrible but true... | |
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I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes. 
