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.
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![ducedinto England as a remedy fir infcennittents br Dr. Fowler, in (XHiaeqaence of the soccess c£ a patent medkine, the TasteleaB Ague Drops, which were supposed, ^'probabfy with reason, to be a prepandon of that mineraL (Eees^s Cyc^ Arc. Arsenic.) Cdddaim came into notice in a amilar war. firm the success of die Eaw MedSemaU of ]£ Hnson. a French milifcary officer. (Pereira.) Iodine was discoTered by a sal^tre mannfiictiirer, but ^^died bj a phvadan in place of die old remedy, bomt tspoDgCy which seems to owe its efficacy to it (DnngliscML, ^Xew Bemedies.) As fiir ^Sii^pftiir, ^the coomiCHi pec^e hare kng used it as an (Mntmoit* fiir scabies. (Bees's Cyc, Art Sadmes.} The modem taUisearlnitie regimen is credited to Captain Cook. ' To his a^acitT we are indebted £x the first impulse to those regnlatirms bj which scfHbatos is so sacces^alty prerented in our naTj. (Lond. Crc. Prac Med, Ait. Scarbmba.') Inm and ranoos salts which enter into the ncnnal compoealinn of die hmnan bodjr do not bdcMog to die materia aiediea bj oar d^- nition, bat to the materia aBmadana. For die first introdnctaan of iron as a remedr, see Pereira, who gires a rerr curious old story. The statement in the text concerning a portion of the materia medica stands exacdr as delivered, and is meant exacdy as it stands. No denandadoa of drugs as sporin^lj emploTed by a wise phT^dan, was or is intended. If, however, as Dr. Gould stated in his '^valuable and jwactical discourse to whidb the Massachosetts Medical Sodetj listened with profit as well as interest, *^ Drugs, in themselves oonsdered. may always be re- garded as evils. — any one who chooses may questjcm whether the evils frcxn their abuse are, on the whole, greater or less than the undoubted benefits obtained fitxn their proper ose. The large exception of apium, wme, tpedjics^ and oncesfftefKs; made in the text, takes <^ enough from the teelul side, as I fully believe, to turn the balance; so diat a Tessel cont^ning none of these, but loaded with antimcmj, strychnine, acetate of lead, aloes, 3 D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21019745_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
