 | Robert M. Crunden - 1984 - Страниц: 324
...most eminent medical teachers in the country, observed, "If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes."20 Quite aside from the uselessness of most drugs from a purely medical standpoint, other issues... | |
 | Gary W. Gallagher - 1996 - Страниц: 288
...Wendell Holmes told a gathering of physicians that if all medical techniques then known "could sink to the bottom of the sea. it would be all the better for mankind— and all the worse for the fishes."1 Urgency, oftentimes bordering on desperation, marked medical efforts in the first two years... | |
 | Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers - 1997 - Страниц: 606
...Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that, with few exceptions, "if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...the better for mankind — and all the worse for the fishes."13 Indicative of the public's low esteem for the medical profession during the 1830s and 1840s... | |
 | Gregory Higby, Elaine Condouris Stroud - 1997 - Страниц: 328
...Wendell Holmes was most emphatic: "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."6 Some years ago I compared the drugs mentioned in various writings ascribed to Hippocrates,... | |
 | Nancy E. Hoffman, W. Michael Reed, Gwen Socul Rosenbluth - 1997 - Страниц: 338
...mixed history. Oliver Wendell Holmes commented in 1869 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" (Numbers 1988, 55). With the same disgust for the medical... | |
 | William Utrecht - 1998 - Страниц: 96
...practitioner, essayist, novelist and poet, we quote the following: "I firmly believe that if the v'hole Materia Medica could be sunk to the bottom of the...the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea." • • We could almost fill this booklet with similar quotations from the most prominent medical... | |
 | Andrew Weil - 1998 - Страниц: 308
...use. Oliver Wendell Holmes commented: "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."s Earlier still, Voltaire penned this magnificent snipe: "Physicians pour drugs of which they... | |
 | Virginia Ashby Sharpe, Alan I. Faden - 1998 - Страниц: 296
...produce the miracle 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... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2019 - Страниц: 522
...uses the principles of physics..., 208 Frequent changes of medicines..., 208 Holmes, Oliver Wendell ...if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea..., 209 Hulme, Keri ...you have no trust in doctors..., 209 Huxley, Thomas Henry Medicine was the foster-mother... | |
 | Carlos Sabillon - 2000 - Страниц: 466
...poet of the times, spoke of the medicines of his day in a very negative way. He said that if most were sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for humanity and all the worse for the fishes.95 that were mostly responsible for the improvements in health.... | |
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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... 
