| 1890 - 880 pagina’s
...with an assorted cargo of the drugs which used to be considered the natural food of sick people, went to the bottom of the sea, it would be " all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." If I had not put that snapper on the end of my whip-lash, I might have got off without the ill temper... | |
| 1859 - 472 pagina’s
...excepted specifics and palliative medicines, says, " 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." In addition to the cures effected by allopathic physicians with specific and empirical remedies (wherein... | |
| 1859 - 940 pagina’s
...throats a number of noxious drugs. " If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be thrown into the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." We can make an exception of opium, " which the Creator seems to prescribe, as we often see the scarlet... | |
| 1876 - 846 pagina’s
...miracle of aenesthesia, 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." 0. W. Homes, MD, Currents ami Counter-Currents in Medical Science, pp. 38-9. — A statement which... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 610 pagina’s
...mouthful. Dr. Holmes thinks that if the whole Materia Medica, as now used, with a few exceptions, 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. Holmes states also the remarkable fact, that the simple method of ventilation, proposed by Dr.... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 pagina’s
...miracle of anaesthesia, 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...for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes. But to justify this proposition, I must add that the injuries inflicted by over-medication are to a... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 600 pagina’s
...mouthful. Dr. Holmes thinks that if the whole Materia Medica, as now used, with a few exceptions, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the hetter for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes. Dr. Holmes states also the remarkable fact, that... | |
| Alonzo Ames Miner - 1867 - 134 pagina’s
...miracle of anaesthesia, 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." I do not undertake to say that this is a sound practical conclusion ; but I do say that the question... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Joint special committee on license law - 1867 - 988 pagina’s
...wine and throw out opium, and if all the rest of the drugs were sunk into the bottom of the ocean, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." Q. (By Mr. ANDREW.) To what school of medicine do you belong ? A. I graduated at Harvard College. Q.... | |
| American Institute of Homeopathy - 1868 - 464 pagina’s
...volume already referred to, has said that " if the whole store of materia medica, as now used, were sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the...better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." While heartily agreeing with this remarkably honest confession of the witty Doctor, we will not, however,... | |
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