 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
 | John H. Knowles - 1977 - 308 pages
...except for opium and wine, "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!" Why have human societies continued to support and to honor healers over so many thousands of years... | |
 | Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, James W. Guthrie - 1990 - 430 pages
...mid-nineteenth century. He wrote, "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." Quoted in Burton J. Bledstein, The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development... | |
 | Jerome D. Frank, Julia B. Frank - 1993 - 376 pages
...harmful. As Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, if most of the drugs of his day "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 [1860] 1911, p. 203). That is, physicians were prescribing placebos or worse without knowing... | |
 | William G. Rothstein - 1992 - 390 pages
...having said in 1860 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." However, this statement was taken wholly out of context. Holmes advocated keeping on board 2 Jacob... | |
 | R.B. Baker - 2007 - 243 pages
...Oliver Wendell Holmes freely admitted that "if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the sea, it would be all the better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes" ([23], p. 203). Yet in "Homeopathy and its Kindred Delusions" ([23], pp. 101-102), Holmes delivered... | |
 | Lisa A Basara, Michael E Montagne - 1994 - 296 pages
...1760 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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, ¡860 The pharmaceutical revolution, while yielding significant benefits, has... | |
 | Michael J. Parnham - 1996 - 184 pages
...believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind. - and all the worse for the fishes [1]." Public opinion is once again becoming negative towards the pharmaceutical industry, and with... | |
 | Thomas T. Lake - 1996 - 138 pages
...when he declared, "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". The body of man is still the fundamental study for the healing arts, and the medicine manufactured... | |
 | Barbara Griggs, Barbara Van der Zee - 1997 - 452 pages
...drugs: 4 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. } 29 His words produced such a storm of abuse and protest that he was obliged to qualify them slightly.... | |
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