Therapeutics founded upon organopathy and antipraxy / by William Sharp.

  • William Sharp
Date:
1886
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    occupy a much humbler place. Here is a golden oppor- tunity placed before every medical practitioner. In saying this I am not afraid of being called presumptuous. I am confident that it would be a step in advance in the right direction, and if taken, may lead to other steps of further improvement; there can be no finality in know- ledge. It will be understood, therefore, that the result of the investigations carried on in these Essays, is the establish- ment (as I think) of Organopathy and Antipraxy, not as theories but as laws of nature or law-facts. They are commended to the Medical Profession for a practical trial, and if they should by this trial be confirmed and adopted, so that in future, practice may be ruled by them, they will do for Medicine what Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravitation has done for Astronomy, what Richter's and Dalton's law of combination in fixed proportions has done for Chemistry, and what William Smith's law of the superposition of strata has done for Geology. With respect to Organopathy — the local action of drugs—this was so fully considered in the earlier Essays, especially in Essay XVII, (1867) it may be sufficient to say that in these later ones it is taken as established. With respect to Antipraxy — the opposite action of