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" 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. "
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by New Hampshire. State Board of Health, New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1883
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 98

1904 - 1122 pages
...the Medical Society in Massachusetts, said: "If the whole materia medica was sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." An eminent medical authority in this state has said that out of twenty-four serious cases of disease...
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The Southeastern Reporter, Volume 46

1904 - 1060 pages
...the Medical ' Society in Massachusetts, said: "If the whole materia medica was sunk to the bottom of the sea, It would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." An eminent medical authority in this state has said that out of 24 serious cases of disease, 3 could...
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The American Medical Monthly, Volume 21

1904 - 476 pages
...written half a century ago, Dr. Holmes said : " If a shipload of drugs could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." It seemed like a rank heresy, and yet with all his disgust for the crude therapeutics of his school...
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The Clinical Review, Volume 23

1906 - 106 pages
...Holmes firmly believed "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. " "Have we forgotten," he writes, "what is told in one of the books published under our own sanction,...
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Christian Healing and the People's Idea of God: Sermons Delivered at Boston

Mary Baker Eddy - 1908 - 60 pages
...Medical School : " 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." Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse writes: "I am sick of learned quackery." Dr. Abercrombie, Fellow of the Royal...
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The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet, Volume 31

1908 - 510 pages
...medical class said: "I am fully persuaded that if all the 'materia medicae' was sunk in the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." it was like a draught of cold water upon those eager medical students. But were not those the days...
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Christian Healing, and the People's Idea of God: Sermons Delivered at Boston

Mary Baker Eddy - 1908 - 60 pages
...would teach him that " whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." The more spiritual we become all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse writes : " I am sick of learned quackery." Dr. Abercrombie, Fellow of the Royal...
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A Practical Study of Malaria

William Heiskell Deaderick - 1909 - 524 pages
...that, excepting a few drugs, "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." During the cold stage blankets, hot drinks, and the external application of heat are indicated. Atropine...
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The Revolution in Medical Practice: A Treatise on Modern Curative Methods ...

Louis Blumer - 1909 - 114 pages
...Society, to say: "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." Are not these conditions enough to satisfy any fair-minded man or woman in any walk of life, that it...
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The Chicago Medical Times, Volumes 4-5

1872 - 642 pages
...anaesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole 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." Such is the teaching of two eminent writers, and if we were to consult the discussions of each of the...
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