Turkish Bath Hand Book

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Little & Becker, 1881 - 242 pages
 

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Page 73 - 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.
Page 115 - The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.
Page 169 - Perhaps nothing will so much hasten the time when body and mind will both be adequately cared for as a diffusion of the belief that the preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Page 169 - Disorders entailed by disobedience to nature's dictates they regard simply as grievances, not as the effects of a conduct more or less flagitious. Though the evil consequences inflicted on their dependents, and on future generations, are often as great as those caused by crime, yet they do not think themselves in any degree criminal.
Page 116 - The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon, and the effects of our medicines on the human system in the highest degree uncertain; except, indeed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined.
Page 169 - Though the evil consequences inflicted on their dependents, and on future generations, are often as great as those caused by crime; yet they do not think themselves in any degree criminal. It is true, that, in the case of drunkenness, the viciousness of a...
Page 56 - Its most important effect is the stimulation of the emunctory action of the skin. By this means we are enabled to wash, as it were, the solid and fluid tissues, and especially the blood and skin, by passing water through them from within out. Hence, in practice, one of the most essential requisites is copious drinking of water during the sweating.
Page 166 - ... to its professors, if indeed a series -of vague and uncertain incongruities deserves to be called by that name. How rarely do our medicines do good! How often do they make our patients really worse! I fearlessly assert, that in most cases the sufferer would be safer without a physician than with one. I have seen enough of the mal-practice of my professional brethren to warrant the strong language I employ.
Page 55 - Conclusions. To sum up, it has been shown that a very large quantity of material can be eliminated from the body in a comparatively short time by immersion in hot dry air, and although the greater part of this is water, still solids are present in quantity sufficient to render this a valuable emunctory process. The temperature of the body and the pulse rate are markedly raised. The respiration falls at first, but afterwards is less influenced than would be expected prima facie. The urine is increased...
Page 166 - my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now obtains.

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