 | 1887 - 450 sider
...anasthaesia, and I believe the whole Materia Medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea and it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes ! " And this is the profession which persists in refusing to affiliate with those who " systematically... | |
 | 1886 - 438 sider
...anasthaesia and I believe the whole Materia Medica as now used could be sunk. to the bottom of the sea and it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes ! This, my friends, is very grateful to us coming from the man who has gained such a reputation by deriding... | |
 | Pitts Edwin Howes - 1914 - 68 sider
...say, with our Oliver Wendell Holmes, as follows, and believe they have absorbed practical medicine : "Throw out opium and a few specifics which our art...bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and worse for the fishes." Please notice the words "as now used." The facetious outbreak of the great humorist... | |
 | 1911 - 500 sider
...is quoted as having once said, "I firmly believe that if the whole Materia Medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind, and all the worse for the fishes." Pity the therapeutic ignorance of this celebrated doctor, in all else wise. When any physician makes... | |
 | Percy Falcke Martin - 1907 - 440 sider
...have allowed himself to write : "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." It is not unusual for great writers to scoff at the medical profession, at least until such time as... | |
 | 1913 - 628 sider
...say, with our Oliver Wendell Holmes, as follows, and believe they have absorbed practical medicine : "Throw out opium and a few specifics which our art...bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and worse for the fishes." Please notice the words "as now used." The facetious outbreak of the great humorist... | |
 | 1913 - 208 sider
...say, with our Oliver Wendell Holmes, as follows, and believe they have absorbed practical medicine: "Throw out opium and a few specifics which our art...bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and worse for the fishes." Please notice the words "as now used." The facetious outbreak of the great humorist... | |
 | 1914 - 52 sider
...and the vapors which produce the miracle of anaesthesia, and I firmly believe, that if the whole of materia medica as now used could be sunk in the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind and worse for the fishes." This is also the opinion of our contemporary. Sir William Osier, the champion... | |
 | 1924 - 952 sider
...one whole page, is the following:"! firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." — Holmes, in a lecture before Harvard University Medical School. It occurs to me that in all probability... | |
 | Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Alan I. Faden - 1998 - 296 sider
...of anesthesia, 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 better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes.' Although this passage is often and certainly was at the time considered a declaration of therapeutic... | |
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Throw out opium and a few specifics which our art did not discover and is hardly needed to apply ; throw out wine which is a food and the vapors which produce the miracle of anesthesia, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used,... 
