Confessions of the faculty : a collection of curious and important facts, deeply interesting to heads of families and invalids / by Socius.
- Date:
- 1848
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Credit: Confessions of the faculty : a collection of curious and important facts, deeply interesting to heads of families and invalids / by Socius. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Have we not even now daily proofs of this fact, and would it not be better for the Public if Physicians would dispense their own Medicines? Let the Public encourage them to do so, and they will find their advantage in it. “The abuse,” says the Heidelberg Clinical Annals*, “ that the servile herd of Apothe- caries make of medicaments, of the effects of which they are ignorant for the cure of diseases, the form of which they seldom, and the nature of which they never know, is indeed dreadful. It is an indisputable truth, that many more die from intermeddling of Apothecaries, than are saved by them.” Kieser saysf, “ In most cases the proverb is true, that the remedy is worse than the disease, and the doctor more dangerous than the disorder. The history of medicine confirms it; every method and system has hitherto made a greater number of victims than the most contageous epedemics, and the longest wars.” “I know very well,” says an old Prac- titioner;];, “that perhaps more than seven- tenths of mankind die, not from disease, but from the unsuitableness and excess of medicine.” * Physical Education, f System der Medizin. J Allgem. Anzeiger d. Deutschen. 1833. 235.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28519462_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
