Currents and counter-currents in medical science : With other addresses and essays / By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Date:
- 1861
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Credit: Currents and counter-currents in medical science : With other addresses and essays / By Oliver Wendell Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![others hare done iar its demnbll, tibe deadi-blow came from Ifae scalpd of Louifi. That eommim con- tmued feret- is not gistro-enteritis, that tuberde is not eGBentianj the ocmseqaenoe ci inflsmmatioa ; these two fiicts he placed bejimd dispute, and finom tiiat moment the en^Hie of Bronssus b^;^ to dis- solve. In Tain did the cdd athlete wiithe like Laooo- on in the emlsaee ci the serpoits; his children, his darling doctrines, cirded with coQ npon cod of their iron antagonist, weie dowlj chewed out of life, idiile }ie himself battled Tainlj to the last, with the whole strraigth of his Herculean energies. The ph jsiologi cal system, as a whole, passed away, and with it a mode of practioe founded v^on fidse princijdes, and ofien leading to dangerous pn/ddesl condusiflns. This was the immediate consequence of a mare ex- act study of the charaeters of inflanunaticm, jdmied TO a nicer scrutinj oi the individual organs. The selfstyled practical meai of {Htmndal ceiebritj sometimes sneer at the labors of the pathologist, as ignorant sailors lau^ at the landlubb^ who com- putes their captain's logarithms; alike unconscious that their path throng doubt and danger is traced bJ the hand which is the olject of thdr stupid langh- lar. At this Terj time, during this very day which ]jas&es o¥er our heads, a hundred thousand leeches would have been draining the lifi^lood from that noble army of martyrts whom the i^ysidans of Amer- ica call their patients, in the Tain hope of subduing](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21019745_0311.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
