Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp.

  • William Sharp
Date:
1886
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Credit: Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * All leading books on Medicine are said to be on The Theory and Practice of Physic. Every theory fails, and is supplanted by another. But there is another path—the path of searching for facts—fivst for individual facts, and then, by induction from these, for what have been called general, or uni- versal, or, as I shall now call them, law-facts. They are often termed laws of nature. In pursuing this path in the field of Therapeutics, I have been so happy (as I believe) as to discover two of these law-facts—the local action of all drugs, which I have called Ovariopathy, and the contrary action of certain larger and smaller doses of each drug, to which I have given the name of Antipraxy. Upon these two pillars a platform may be raised, on which men of all sides and diversities of opinion may meet and shake hands with each other. A union thus effected would bless the sick, the profession, and the. world. Duty, patriotism, and self-interest would be a three-fold cord binding men together. In this way the true position of respect and confidence for the Medical Profession would be attained. The main support of quackery would melt away from underneath it, and that which, hitherto, has been triumphant would have to