 | 1890 - 880 sider
...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 sider
...efficacious." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, after having excepted specifics and palliative medicines, says, " If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be...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 sider
...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 sider
...to apply ; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which produce the miracle of aenesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 450 sider
...specifics which our art did not discover, and is hardly needed to apply [Note C~\ ; throw out wine, which is a food, and the vapors which produce the miracle...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 - 656 sider
...single 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...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.... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1861 - 600 sider
...single 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... | |
 | 1865 - 552 sider
...Throw out opium," he says, " throw out a few specifics, which our art did not discover, throw out wine and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." " When doctors disagree, who shall decide ?" The celebrated Professor Louis, of Paris, in an essay... | |
 | 1869 - 498 sider
...importance, when he says, and the italics are his own, " I firmly believe that if the whole mnteria medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of...the sea, it would be all the better for mankind." We print this month a double number of the Gazette, in order to give a more complete account of the... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner - 1867 - 134 sider
...Society : " Throw out opium, throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover; throw out wine, and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia,...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... | |
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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. 
