Verwandte Artikel zu A course of fifteen lectures, on medical botany; denominated...
A course of fifteen lectures, on medical botany; denominated Thomson's theory of medical practice in which the various theories that have preceded it, ... and compared delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio - Softcover
Zu dieser ISBN ist aktuell kein Angebot verfügbar.
Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...poisons of medical practice. From all these causes, and many more that might be assigned; such as the recipes being concealed in a dead language; the mistakes in filling them up; one substance mistaken for another; attendance of boys, and persons unskilled in the apothecaries shops, when rankest poisons are distributed as medicines; all these causes have filled the whole history of medical practice with dismay, uncertainty and death. "Mr. Barry, a respectable citizen of Boston, during the course of the last summer, applied to an apothecary for a dose of cream of tartar; in place of which he received tartar emetic; he had no sooner taken a small portion of it, than he.was thrown into the most violent puking and spasms. A physician was immediately sent for, who administered fifteen grains of white vitriol. Death soon followed. Query--Which killed the man--the tartar emetic or the white vitriol?" Now, the groat superiority and certainty of Thomson's system, consist in the simplicity of his practice and the safe and certain operation of his remedy. And, although ThomSon seems to have been utterly unconscious of the hazards and difficulties of the established practice--yet, when these were brought to light, they served to confirm him in the value and universality of his discoveries; because, if all the wisdom of the schools, and genius, and ingenuity, of practitioners, had been baffled and confounded, through the lapse of four thousand years, it was evident that the discovery of a universal remedy for fever, must be found in another department than that of the established science! And in that department Thomson rose to eminence, and received "his degree from the hand of nature.' In that great labaratory of medical science, where nature makes our f...
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Reseña del editor
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...poisons of medical practice. From all these causes, and many more that might be assigned; such as the recipes being concealed in a dead language; the mistakes in filling them up; one substance mistaken for another; attendance of boys, and persons unskilled in the apothecaries shops, when rankest poisons are distributed as medicines; all these causes have filled the whole history of medical practice with dismay, uncertainty and death. "Mr. Barry, a respectable citizen of Boston, during the course of the last summer, applied to an apothecary for a dose of cream of tartar; in place of which he received tartar emetic; he had no sooner taken a small portion of it, than he.was thrown into the most violent puking and spasms. A physician was immediately sent for, who administered fifteen grains of white vitriol. Death soon followed. Query--Which killed the man--the tartar emetic or the white vitriol?" Now, the groat superiority and certainty of Thomson's system, consist in the simplicity of his practice and the safe and certain operation of his remedy. And, although ThomSon seems to have been utterly unconscious of the hazards and difficulties of the established practice--yet, when these were brought to light, they served to confirm him in the value and universality of his discoveries; because, if all the wisdom of the schools, and genius, and ingenuity, of practitioners, had been baffled and confounded, through the lapse of four thousand years, it was evident that the discovery of a universal remedy for fever, must be found in another department than that of the established science! And in that department Thomson rose to eminence, and received "his degree from the hand of nature.' In that great labaratory of medical science, where nature makes our f...
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
(Keine Angebote verfügbar)
Buch Finden: Kaufgesuch aufgebenSie finden Ihr gewünschtes Buch nicht? Wir suchen weiter für Sie. Sobald einer unserer Buchverkäufer das Buch bei AbeBooks anbietet, werden wir Sie informieren!
Kaufgesuch aufgeben
