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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![periment. Efifects misimputed, cases wrong told, circumstances overlooked, perhaps, too, prejudices and partialities against truth, may for a time pre- vail and keep her at the bottom of her well, from whence nevertheless she emergeth sooner or later, and strikes the eyes of all who do not keep them shut. I cannot resist the temptation of illustrat- ing the bishop's belief in the wonderful powers of his remedy, by a few sentences from different parts of his essay. The hardness of stubbed vulgar constitutions renders them insensible of a thousand things that fret and gall those delicate people, who, as if their skin was peeled off, feel to the quick everything that touches them. The tender nerves and low spirits of such poor creatures would be much relieved by the use of Tar Water, which might prolong and cheer their lives. It [the Tar Water] may be made stronger for brute beasts, as horses, in whose disorders I have found it very useful. '* This same water will also give charitable relief to the ladies, who often want it more than the parish poor ; being many of them never able to make a good meal, and sitting pale, puny, and forbidden, like ghosts, at their own table, victims of vapors and m- digestion. It does not appear among the virtues of Tar Water that children cried for it, as for some of our modern remedies, but the bishop says, I have known children take it for above six months together with great benefit, and without any incon-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21019745_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
