An essay on hasheesh : including observations and experiments / by Victor Robinson.

  • Victor Robinson
Date:
1912
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Credit: An essay on hasheesh : including observations and experiments / by Victor Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lets, troches, ointments, plasters, ab- stracts, liniments, collodions, cata- plasms and so on and so on. And all these finished preparations have a most laudable object in view— the eradication of disease and the alle- viation of pain. Ah, this is indeed a quest worth the striving for! To ac- complish the quadrature of the circle, or ferret out the secret of perpetual motion, may be highly interesting, tho of problematical value only; but when a clammy sweat bathes the brow, and the delicate nerves twitch till the tor- tured human frame shakes in anguish, how important is it to be able to lift the veil from a condition like this! He who conquers disease is greater than the builder of cities or the creator of empires. His value is above the poets, statesmen cannot be compared unto him, educators equal him not in worth. A careful econo- mist like John Stuart Mill tells us it is doubtful if all the labor-saving ma- chinery ever invented has lessened for a single day the work of a single hu- man being,—but when a discovery is made in medicine it becomes a sun
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