 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
 | Gerald Weissmann - 2003 - 308 pages
...anesthesia, and 1 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."' ASPIRIN: THREE OF THEM Before doctors hurry to give their elderly patients the newest COX-2 inhibitor... | |
 | D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 pages
...Franklin. 4. l 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. - Holmes. 5. The best of all medicines are rest and fasting - Franklin. Mediocrity 1 . Jack of all... | |
 | John M. Barry - 2005 - 580 pages
...declared, "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 was something else about America. It was such a practical place. If it was a nation bursting... | |
 | Guy Faguet - 2005 - 252 pages
...status of drugs at the time: "If the whole materia medico, 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'" 53. As this statement resonated in America, progress in bacteriology and parasitology was having a... | |
 | Shawn C. Shea - 2006 - 192 pages
...(1849-1919) "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. "2 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Renowned Physician (1809-1894) THE "GREAT DEBATE" IN THEORY Inside each... | |
 | Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - 597 pages
...887 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. Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science Oliver Wendell Holmes; 1861 888 The disgrace of medicine... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 pages
...with a candor uncommon among his profession that if the entire materia medica of his time could be thrown into the sea, it would be "all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." Physicians acted as their own pharmacists, selling the medicines they prescribed. The invention of... | |
 | Burke A. Cunha - 2007 - 264 pages
...and I firmly believe that if the whole material 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. — Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) Fever of unknown origin (FUO) amply illustrates the mot that... | |
 | Wallace Salzman - 2007 - 330 pages
...Wendell Holmes into saying " 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". LJ Henderson commented somewhere between 1910 and 1920 that "In this country, a random patient with... | |
 | Dana Ullman - 2007 - 408 pages
...that if the whole materia medica (materials of medicine), 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" (Holmes, 1891). Dr. Holmes's primary attack was on the extremely small doses that are used in homeopathic... | |
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