 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
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 202 pages
...the leading drugs and specifics and then throw the rest overboard, adding with characteristic humor, "It would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." In his long experience among students he was always a great favorite, owing to the interest he infused... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...— Aphorism*. 6. I firmly believe that if the whole mnteria medica could be sunk to the bottom of e Harold. Canto III. St. 71. Thou Royal River, born of sun and shower In chambers h. 0. W. HOLMES — Lecture he/ore the Harvard Medical School. A pill that at the present moment is... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1898 - 318 pages
...Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes remarked that " if the whole materia medica could be sunk in the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." The young physician should therefore make up his mind to study the causes of disease. The Medical Record... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1891 - 764 pages
...-tenths of all the medicines, patent, proprietary and otherwise, in the world were poured into the ocean, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes ; and the best physician can do little without good nursing, and. thus aid nature in throwing off disease. EXCURSION... | |
 | 1901 - 600 pages
...Harvard Medical School: "I firmly believe that if the whole mattria medim could be sunk to the bottom of the sea. it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Volta're had quite the opposite opinion, and he once write: "But nothing is more estimable than a physician... | |
 | Newton N. Riddell - 1901 - 154 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." — Medical Essays, page 203. Again Dr. Holmes says: "The disgrace of medicine has been that collossal... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 pages
...body. COI/TON, Lacon. 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. HOLMES, Lecture before Harvard Med. School. O health ! health ! the blessing of the rich! the riches... | |
 | 1903 - 496 pages
...Holmes : "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." — Medical Essays, page 201. The leaders in medical thought and practice are discarding drugs and... | |
 | 1903 - 786 pages
...specifics, chloroform and ether, he believed that if the whole materia medica were sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes. Of concocting many drugs there is no end. If we add to this the great number of medical journals which... | |
 | 1903 - 454 pages
...exceptions, drugs which weie given needlessly and in excess, as then 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. This was too bad ; the sentence was misquoted without qualifying conditions, and frightened some of... | |
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