 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.  Report - Page 308by New Hampshire. State Board of Health, New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Frank Heynick - 2002 - 788 pages
...declaration in 1860, that "if the whole of the materia medica as now used could be sunk in the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes." Another marginal area into which the Jewish doctors ofVienna were channeled in the age of specialization... | |
 | Owsei Temkin - 2002 - 302 pages
...heard Holmes 's often quoted remark "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."" In Vienna, therapeutic nihilists had agitated for suspending all therapy, letting the patient have... | |
 | Gerald Weissmann - 2002 - 312 pages
...anesthaesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom, it would be all the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes.5 ASPIRIN: THREE OF THEM Before doctors hurry to give their elderly patients the newest COX-2... | |
 | Herbert Lockwood - 2003 - 208 pages
...poet, essayist, and physician, told a medical congress that if all the drugs then in use were dumped into the sea, it would be all the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes. Excepting quinine and digitalis, the materia medico of the period could well have been consigned to... | |
 | John Waller - 2002 - 214 pages
...believe that if the whole materia medica [ie medical drugs], 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', wrote the American doctor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, in 1880. By the end of World War II, doctors had... | |
 | S. Nassir Ghaemi - 2003 - 380 pages
...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 all the worse for the fishes. ([I860] 1911, 202-3)1 Holmes's influence on the use of empirical methods in medicine deserves further... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 pages
...2055. 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. - Holmer )S& 9. Mediocrity 2056. Jack of all trades but master of none. ueu UI if Ai & sm L. e>ssm... | |
 | Hilton Hotema - 1998 - 168 pages
...M. JOSEPHSON, MD "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medic a 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, MD Professor of Medicine at Harvard "// you tell a lie big enough, and loud... | |
 | S. Nassir Ghaemi - 2003 - 308 pages
...and I firmly believe that if the whole materia mcdica, 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. Thus, Holmes' rule is that there must be empirical proof that a treatment is effective, to outweigh... | |
 | George F. Will - 2003 - 388 pages
...Wendell Holmes said, "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." Medicine has advanced, but historians may say that the age of modern medicine dawned with the decoding... | |
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