...with an assorted cargo of the drugs which used to be considered the natural food of sick people, went to the bottom of the sea, it would be " all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." If I had not put that snapper on the end of my whip-lash, I might have got off without the ill temper...

...efficacious." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, after having excepted specifics and palliative medicines, says, " If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be...better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." In addition to the cures effected by allopathic physicians with specific and empirical remedies (wherein...

...throats a number of noxious drugs. " If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be thrown into the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." We can make an exception of opium, " which the Creator seems to prescribe, as we often see the scarlet...

...to apply ; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which produce the miracle of aenesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica...better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." 0. W. Homes, MD, Currents ami Counter-Currents in Medical Science, pp. 38-9. — A statement which...

...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...better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. Dr. Holmes states also the remarkable fact, that the simple method of ventilation, proposed by Dr....

...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...

...Throw out opium," he says, " throw out a few specifics, which our art did not discover, throw out wine and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." " When doctors disagree, who shall decide ?" The celebrated Professor Louis, of Paris, in an essay...

...importance, when he 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...

...Society : " Throw out opium, throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover; throw out wine, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." I do not undertake to say that this is a sound practical conclusion; but I do say that the question...

...which our art did not discover; throw out wine, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica,...better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." I do not undertake to say that this is a sound practical conclusion; but I do say that the question...