 | 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... | |
 | 1869 - 498 pages
...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 of the... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - 1873 - 494 pages
...Massachusetts Medical Society — " I firmly believe that if the whole MATEEIA 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 theJUhes !" CHAPTER XIII. The difference between Hydropathy and Physic — the same sources of lcnoivledge... | |
 | Charles Fessenden Nichols - 1879 - 56 pages
...of his profession with the remark, I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be the better for mankind, — and the worse for the fishes. It were easy to multiply authorities to prove... | |
 | 1913 - 1124 pages
...collection of nostrums, one is involuntarily reminded of Oliver Wendell Holmes's words: "If all the 'materia medica' could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be so much the better for mankind and so much the worse for the fishes." Another form of "curing" deafness... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1895 - 644 pages
...produce the miracle of anaesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishesj But to justify this proposition, I must add that the injuries inflicted by over-medication... | |
 | 1900 - 784 pages
...produce the miracles of anaesthesia, and 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 ail the worse for the fishes." Montaigne has told us how he came by his "hereditary contempt" for medicine.... | |
 | Edward Latham - 1906 - 338 pages
...but industry and patient thought. SIR ISAAC NF.WTON (1642-1727) — to Dr. Richard Bentley. I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be...all the better for mankind and all the worse for the sea. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-94) — in a lecture before the Harvard Medical School. If I tremble... | |
 | Charles Edmund Fisher - 1906 - 404 pages
...produce the miracle of anaesthesia. and 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 humanity and all the worse for the fishes." So that the reference to medicine was meant to apply to... | |
 | 1911 - 500 pages
...indeed. THE MEDICINE OR THE DOCTOR. Oliver Wendell Holmes is quoted as having once said, "I firmly believe that if the whole Materia Medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." Pity the therapeutic ignorance of this celebrated... | |
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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... 
