Notes on medical education / by James Sawyer.

  • Sawyer, James
Date:
1889
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Credit: Notes on medical education / by James Sawyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    employed improperly. Let us study again, and more closely, and by modern scientific methods, many a good old drug, such as arsenic and antimony, mercury and hemlock, sulphur, and turpentine. Let us watch, too, the marvellous de- velopments of modern chemistry in their bearings upon our medicines. With a wide eye let us watch the sciences which are ancillary to ours, that we may translate their advances and resources into practical therapeutic utilities. Let us be reading, and reading old books, as well as doing other work. If we turn to the therapeutic literature of the past we shall find not only that the fittest remedies have not always survived, but that some of our most striking modern curative triumphs have been gained by old remedies which had long been forgotten, as, for instance, in the treatment of pyrexia by the affusion of cold water—a