The eclectic practice of medicine / by John M. Scudder.
- John Milton Scudder
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The eclectic practice of medicine / by John M. Scudder. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![COMPLETE DESCRIPTION and PRICE LIST OF MEDICAL BOOKS PUBLISHED AXD FOR SALE BY JOHN M. SCUDDER, 228 COURT STREET, CINCINNATI, O. 189] Any book in this list sent post-paid on receipt of price. 7T S a school of medicine we profess to have a distinctive practice, unlike €yl either our old school or homeopathic neighbors. We claim to use differ- ent remedies, or in different form and dose, and for different effects. We boldly claim a more successful practice than either of our competitors, and this claim can only be based upon different principles, a different therapeutics, and a different materia medica. We must, therefore, have distinctive books which clearly state our methods of practice. Old-school works will not serve this purpose, neither will homeo- pathic. With the pretensions we make, if we can not show that we have such works, and depend upon them, we are frauds of the first magnitude. In the early days of Eclecticism, the need of text-books was clearly seen, ami great sacrifices were made to furnish them. The writers toiled without pay, and to publish the earlier works they practiced the most rigid economy for years to command the money. By these means we had Beach's works. Jones ami Morrow's Practice, King's Dispensatory, and some others. The making of hooks was not an easy nor a profitable job. Now we have a full list of text-books, or books of reference, and by frequent revision they are kept fully up to our practice of to-day. They have been very successful, more so than any American books in the market, and this is the best evidence of their value. They are bought by all schools of medicine, and when bought they are brought into active use.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21077344_0821.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
