 | Jacalyn Duffin - 2005 - Страниц: 368
...out wine, which is a food ... and I firmly believe that the whole materia medica, as now used [1860], could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind - and worse for the fishes. (Holmes, 1911, 202-3) knew George Santayana's aphorism on a more universal form... | |
 | John Haller - 2005 - Страниц: 472
...least of which concerned the materia medica: "l firmly believe that if the 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 his criticism came late, the frustration... | |
 | Jim Phelps - 2006 - Страниц: 304
...nineteenthcentury physician Oliver Wendell Holmes who said that "if the entire 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."2 It turns out that antidepressants are not the panacea that many once thought. One reason... | |
 | Frederick L. Rawson - 2007 - Страниц: 453
...quackery," and Oliver Wendell Holmes say, in a lecture before the Harvard Medical School : " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be...the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and the worse for the fishes " ? Why in allopathy 40 is a large amount of a drug given that causes opposite... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2006 - Страниц: 204
...produce the miracle of an;esthesis, and I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, fis now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.1'1 The epigrammatic turn of the last sentence made it instantly famous. The final phrase, Holmes... | |
 | Wallace Salzman - 2007 - Страниц: 330
...exception of opium and anesthetics, and a very few other drugs, if the whole Materia Medica, as then used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fish.' That was back in 1860. What is more significant is that although Sir Osler was the embodiment... | |
 | Charlene Mikkelsen - 2007 - Страниц: 270
...told his colleagues that if the whole existing formulary of drugs and potions available to them were sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind-and all the worse for the fish. The pastor spent time with her and encouraged meditation and... | |
 | 1917 - Страниц: 666
...same revered physician who facetiously said : " I firmly believe that if the whole materia medico, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be...all the better for mankind and all the worse for the sea." And it was Dr. Osier who also believed that good cheer was a material aid to good health who... | |
 | 1919 - Страниц: 100
...the following quotation, without comment or signature, on a common piece of scratch paper: "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea that it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. — Holmes. Lecture at... | |
 | Kunal Shinde - 2006 - Страниц: 182
...problems. 12 Pranayams and Yogasans 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 the mankind and all the worse for the fishes. —Holmes Pranayam and Yogasans are also very useful... | |
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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... 
