National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-21
MEDICAL GEMS.

Hard Pills for tbo Regular PhyEisinns
or are Old school 20 swallow E.nanat.
ing from Grcat Men OF the word.
Medicine is n humbug.-M. Margcndie,
France.
All medicines are poisonous s. ST..
John, NJ. d.
What we call medical science is tumble
of inconsistent opinions.-Dublin Medical
Journal.
Four hundred aud eighty grains Of calomel
have been given ia single dose for cholera
Prof Davis.
Nine times out Of ten our miscaled remedies
are injurious to our patents.-Prof. jamie
son, Scotland.
Four grains of calomcl will sometimes kill
an adult Prof c. A. Gilman, New York
Medical College.
Every dose of medicine is blind expert
ment on tho vitality of tho patIcnt.-Bo
tock's History OF Medicine.
All our curative agents are poisqns. and, as
a consequence every dose diminishes the pa
TENTS vitality.-Prof. Clark.
Physicians have hurried thousands to their
graves who would have recovered if left to
nature.-Prot. Clark, Now York.
The vital effects" of medicines are very
little understood. 1t is term employed to
cover au ignOrance.--Prof Davis.
fearlessly assert that in most cases our pa.
tents would be safer without physician
than with ono.-Dr. Ramage, II. +. G.
The popular medical system has neither
philosophy nor common sense to commend it
to conhdenco.--Dr. Evans, 4. L. C., London.
Quackery--rhe chief cause Of quackery
outside of the medical profession is the real
quackery in the PROFESSIONALS. Adam Smith.
From thirty to sixty grains of calomol have
been given very small children for Group
Prof. Alonzo Clark. New York Medical Col.
lege.
Tho drugs which are administered for the
cure of scarlet fever kiln far moro patients
than the disease does.-Prof. Baker, New
York Medical College
All onr oogitations respecting tho modus
oporAndi of medicines are purely empirical
Prof. Charles d, Meigs, Jefferson Medical coll
lege, Philadolphia, Pa.
Ninoty-nino out of every hundred medical
facts are medical lies, and medical doctrines
are for the most part stark staring nonsense
Prof. Gregory, Edinburg.
The reason medicine has advanced so
slowly is because physicians have studied the
writings of their predecessors instead OF
nature.-Alex. Ii. Stevens, NJ. d.
All medicines which enter tho circulation
poison tho blood in the same manner as do
tho poisons that produce disease. Prof JOS.
NJ. Smith, M. D., y. Y. College Of Physi-
clans and Surgeons.
The modus opernnd of medicines Is still
very obscure. We know that thoy operate,
but exactly how they operate is entirely un-
known,-Prof, Il, IL. Davis, NJ. d., New
York Medical college,
II Is my firm belief that tho prevailing
mode OF practice is productive of vastly moro
evil than good, and were it absolutely
abolished, mankind would DO infinitely tho
! gaiuer.-Dr. Cogswell, Boston.
What do persons who call themselves rea-
sonable do IN the midst of n hundred doctors
with a hundred different medicines, each
affirming that his own is good and that all the
rest arc bad DO they reject them all No;
they swallow them all,--Dr. Trail
Men use their brains and hands to invent
and fashion deadly drugs when their brains
and hands might DO applied directly 20 Danish
disease instead of killing thousands with
poisonous exporiments-prof, Dexter, $50
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