...professor firmly believes " 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." He does offer to " throw out " wine and opium, which Hippocrates undoubtedly used, and the anaesthetic...

...Medication. A facetious Yankee doctor, well-known to the readers of light literature, once said : " If all the medicine in the world were thrown into...better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Many regarded this as a slur upon the medical profession, and as an attempt on the part of the author...

...specifics, wine and anaesthetics, "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." The following apologue, says the great D'Alembert, related by a physician, a man of wit and philosophy,...

...believe that if the whole materia medica as now used [the italics are his] could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes." Dr. James Rush, of Philadelphia, a distinguished physician, says :' " Upon these points, and bearing...

...— Austin Flint. "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." — Oliver Wendell Holmes. "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies,...

...decay in human teeth ? A distinguished physician is credited with the remark, that if all medicine were thrown into the sea it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. As dentistry is practiced today, even including all who are engaged in it, such a remark concerning...

...says, "Take out opium, take out a few specifics, and if all the drugs in the Materia Medica were cast into the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Medicine is yet in its infancy, just coming from the darkness of ignorance and clouds of superstition....

...and sulphuric ether, I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." methods tested the truth of all propositions or discoveries by mental intuition solely, without the...

..." 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!" There is more novelty and boldness in another theory that has been promulgated by a Dr dotting, in...

...and sulphuric ether, I firmly believe that if the whole Materia Medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." Hufeland said,. " Homoeopathy is the grave of science." He might have said with much more truth, "Medicine...