 Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in...  The Homoeopathic Recorder - Page 2431889Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 494 pages
...heard the trumpet tones of a Chambers, ' Wrap your " ' patients in blankets and let them alone.' " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...medical " progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems "of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each... | |
 | 1876 - 1164 pages
...latter day American and German writers, to sneer at what is called rational empiricism. Says Wood : "Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily,...been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind." Says Bartholow : "As respects the therapeutical application of remedies, I have, as far as practicable,... | |
 | 1875 - 756 pages
...heard the trumpet tones of a Chambers, ' Wrap your " ' patients in blankets and let them alone.' " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...medical " progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems " of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...blind leader of the blind ; and the history of medical " progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems " of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each hack to the " vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for '' verities.... | |
 | 1876 - 730 pages
...arrest an intermittent; that salts will purge, and that opium will quiet pain and lull to sleep." " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily,...been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind." . . . . "In spite, then, of Dr. Niemeyer's assertion that experiments made with medicaments upon the... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1877 - 704 pages
...to be heard the trumpet-tones of a Chambers, " Wrap your patients in blankets and let them alone." . Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back... | |
 | Samuel A. Jones - 1880 - 104 pages
...to be heard the trumpettones of a Chambers, ' Wrap your patients in blanke'.s and let them alone.' " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily,...of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back... | |
 | Frederick F. Moore - 1880 - 70 pages
...arrest an intermittent, that salts will purge, and that opium will quiet pain and lull to sleep. . . . Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily,...of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each... | |
 | Frederick F. Moore - 1880 - 64 pages
...arrest an intermittent, that salts will purge, and that opium will quiet pain and lull to sleep. . . . Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily,...medicine rather a blind leader of the blind ; and the histoiy of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth,... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Society - 1881 - 1018 pages
...he says: "Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom, but verily she has in medicine rather been a blind leader of the blind;" and the history ,of medical progress may be broadly described as the history of errors, "a history of men groping in the darkness, finding... | |
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