Neuropathy, or, The true principles of the art of healing the sick : being an explanation of the action of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism, in the cure of disease : and a comparison between their powers, and those of drugs, or medicines, of all kinds, with a view to determine their relative value and proper uses / by Frederick Hollick.

Frederick Hollick

Date:: 1847

Credit: Neuropathy, or, The true principles of the art of healing the sick : being an explanation of the action of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism, in the cure of disease : and a comparison between their powers, and those of drugs, or medicines, of all kinds, with a view to determine their relative value and proper uses / by Frederick Hollick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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drugging and drenching branch of die profession ; but the next slide downwards has already not only- commenced, but has made considerable progress— the slide, namely, of the practice of medicine into the hands of professed nostrum vendors, on the one hand, and mesmerists, hydropathisls,homosopathists, &c, on the other. If the regulars do not in time adopt the ' common term,' so very clearly indicated by the results of the practice of the latter-mentioned race, and adopt, in the matter of ' drugs,' nc quid nimis for their motto, e'estfait de rums/' There are about thirty closely printed pages of similar testimony, in the Review for July, 1846, and I should be glad if my limits would allow of more extracts from them. Some excellent quotations are made from the Philosophy of Medicine, by E. Bartlett, profes- sor of Medicine in the University of Maryland, but they are too long to be all inserted here; I am glad however to mention the work, as it may direct th^ attention of many to it who have not yet read it. He speaks encouragingly of the gradual abandon- ment of the present drugging system, and forcibly depicts its evils. Dr. Forbes says,— We know, on the best authority, that, not many years since, it was the practice of a professor of medicine, at one of the American Universities, to recommend and to prescribe calomel in tablespoon- fuls! Even in this book Dr. Bartlett, reprobating this system, tells us: ' It [calomel] is constantly administered—on all occasions—in all diseases— and in all their stages. It has, literally, in some instances, been made an article of daily food—■ sprinkled upon buttered bread, and mixed with it

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