| Charles Edward Page - Hygiene - 1886 - 330 pages
...on conjecture and improved by murder." Oliver Wen dell Holmes said before a medical class in 1861 . "The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison bags of reptiles drained of... | |
| john henry smith - 1884 - 858 pages
...quoted so freely)— "The disgrace of medicine has been that a colossal system of self-destruction, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the entrails of animals taxed of their impurities, the poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom,... | |
| Medicine - 1888 - 520 pages
...murder." Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD, before a medical class in Cambridge, Mass., in 1861, said: " The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...self-deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of the cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth, the entrails of animals taxed... | |
| Medicine - 1889 - 432 pages
...Wendell Holmes, the poet physician, before a medical class in Cambridge, Mass., in 1 86 1, said : " The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...self-deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of the cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growths, the entrails of animals taxed... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 504 pages
...Ware's admirable essay. I respect the evidence of my contemporaries, but I cannot forget the sayings of the Father of medicine, — Ars longa,judicium...thus obtained thrust down the throats of human beings suff ering from some fault of organization, nourishment, or vital stimulation. Much as we have gained,... | |
| Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore, Mrs. Clara Jessup Moore - Etiquette - 1892 - 332 pages
...manner. " Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, before a medical class in Cambridge, Mass., in 1861, said : ' The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...self-deception in obedience to which mines have been emptied of the cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth, the entrails of animals taxed... | |
| Alexander Milton Ross - Antislavery movements - 1893 - 302 pages
...to science. It is to-day what it ha* always been, a colossal system of humbug aud self-deception, iu obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the intestines of animals taxed for their filth, and poison bags of reptiles drained of their venom, and... | |
| Medicine - 1897 - 800 pages
...1861, at Harvard Medical School, spoke the truth in his emphatic and epigrammatic manner as follows : " The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison-bags of reptiles drained of... | |
| Medicine - 1898 - 372 pages
...mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the vegetable kingdom robbed of all its growth, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities,...the poison-bags of reptiles drained of their venom, arid all the conceivable abominations thus obtained thrust down the throats of human beings suffering... | |
| New Thought - 1900 - 500 pages
...no positive good is accomplished at least no harm can be done. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said : "The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system...have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison-bags of reptiles drained of their venom."... | |
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