...to nature, instead of prescribing drugs, more would have been saved." Sir Astley Cooper says : ' ' The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder." Dr. Rush says: "We have assisted in multiplying diseases ; we have done more — we have increased...

...upon the body : " They are fraught with the highest degree of uncertainty. Sir Astley Cooper says : " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder." Dr. Gregory, author of a work on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, says : "Medical doctrines are...

...upon the body : " They are fraught with the highest degree of uncertainty. Sir Astley Cooper says : " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder." Dr. Gregory, author of a work on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, says : " Medical doctrines are...

...by study and large experience — men who are recognized as authority by the profession at large : " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture and improved by murder." — Sir Astley Cooper. " We have assisted in multiplying diseases, nay, more, we have increased their...

...had known this method of ascertaining the therapeutic action of drugs, he never would have said that "the science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.." PROCEEDINGS OF THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 101 Clinical experience is undoubtedly the touchstone by which...

...ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD. By WM WILKINSON. " I did not say it was possible ; I only said it was true." " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder."— Sir Astlcy Cooper. PART I. THIS subject has been brought prominently before the public during the last...

...lives than war, pestilence and famine combined." SIR ASTLEY COOPER, England's greatest surgeon says: " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture and improved by murder." But, it may be said, these men lived in the past, and since their time the science of medicine has...

...are collecting facts, and, perhaps, in a century, there may be a science." Sir Astley Cooper says, " the science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder. Sir J. Forbes says, "that in a large majority of Sir J. Forbes, cases, diseases are cured by nature...

...unworthy of this scientific age, and all at eternal enmity with human health, happiness and life ! Bearing in mind, then, the essential distinction between...is founded on conjecture and improved by murder." It was clearly physic, or drug medication that he referred to. It was also of medicine, as identified...

...wo learn — From Dr. Majendie, that " Medicine is a great humbug ; " From Sir Astley Cooper, that " The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder ; " From Sir John Forbes, that '' In a large majority of cases, diseases are cured by nature, in spite...