516 Torsion of Arteries-to Arrest Hæmorrhage. Transmissibility of Secondary Syphilis. By T. J. Wright, M.D. THE claims of the school of Eclectic medicine upon its friends and practitioners are of the most imperative character. As an improved system, dispensing with the mischievous notions and nostrums of the old school, and establishing a superior method of treating the sick, with a more scientific materia medica, it is entitled to lasting honor and gratitude. For the liberality of its code it deserves credit; perhaps its innovations upon the procrustean usages which had before. been established are not among the least benefits which it has conferred. Till within the last quarter-century, in many States of the American Union, "irregular" practitioners of medicine were liable to penalties for pursuing their vocation. But now the proscriptive laws have been repealed, and at the present time the man who can demonstrate his ability to treat disease successfully, is at full liberty to do so in the face of the whole world. Freedom of medical practice has been established in the United States, along with freedom of private conscience, and the earth continues VOL. IV.-NO. 1. 1 |