 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John William Dowling - 1882 - 30 pages
...their advocates clamorous for a hearing; and above all the tumult are to be heard the trumpet-tones of a Chambers : ' Wrap your patients in blankets,...history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming germs of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back to the vast heap of forgotten... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Association - 1883 - 344 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... | |
 | 1889 - 646 pages
...Simply because clinical experience without the light of the law of similars is a delusion and a snare. " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...of medical progress is a history of men groping in darkness, finding seeming gems of truth, one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1894 - 1050 pages
...trumpettones of a Chambers, " Wrap your patients in blankets and let them alone." Experience is said to bo the mother of wisdom. Verily she has been in medicine...of medical progress is a history of men groping in tho darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in a few minutes to cast each back... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1896 - 1302 pages
...experience cannot " rest upon a secure foundation." He says in his work on Therapeutics, 1891, p. 8: "Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind." The laboratory method is advocated by him as the most reliable source of therapeutic indications. And... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - 1896 - 628 pages
...empirical methods. Experience was said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily, in medicine, she had been rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical practice was a history of men groping in darkness, finding seeming gems of truth, one after another,... | |
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Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily, she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind... 
