...Wendell Holmes remarked 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." Cited in Ronald L. Numbers, "The Fall and Rise of the American Medical Profession," in Sickness and...

...that "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" (quoted in Crout. 1980. p. 41). But by and large. 18th- and 19thcentury physicians and healers also...

...profession. He once 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." "Breakfast-Table Series" will be read by the intelligent people of the future, who will know nothing...

...solution to this negligence was radical. He said, "If all drugs available were tossed into the ocean, all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." I am not proposing tossing medicine overboard, but infusing our doctor-patient relationships with more...

...therapeutics of the time were worthless. He said, "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." Homeopaths were in no sense less scientific than regulars by the standards of the nineteenth century,...

...Holmes, Oliver Wendell 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. Address to the Massachusetts Medical Society May 30, 1860 Hulme, Keri "What is your objection to hospitalisation...

...therapeutics: '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.' Holmes took care to except wine, opium, and specifics such as quinine.2i Medical intelligence seemed...

...Harm: History of Pharmacology* If the whole materia medica as 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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1883 In June 1991 the body of American President Zachary Taylor was exhumed...

..."which our art did not discover.""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 1891, xv). Another recommended treatment was to suspend a patient by the feet or the head....

...remark, "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," he specifically exempted opium, a medicine "which the Creator himself seems to prescribe."64 The therapeutic...