 | 1852 - 542 pages
...late Professor Gregory — "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts, are m-dical lies, and medical doctrines are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." The great Magendie says — '-Let us no longer wonder at the lamentable want of success which marks... | |
 | James C. Jackson - Child rearing - 1862 - 346 pages
...to the Herodian massacre." Professor Gregory, a very celebrated English physician, declares that " ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are...are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." Sir John Forbes, physician to Queen Victoria, says : " Some patients get well with the aid of medicine,... | |
 | Durham Dunlop - Bathing customs - 1868 - 502 pages
...form the staple of Medical Therapeutics, for as Professor Gregory of Edinburgh said to his class — "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical...are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." In such "lies" and such "nonsense" generation after generation of medical menhavebeen educated and... | |
 | John H. Ruttley - Health behavior - 1875 - 222 pages
...to confidence." Says Prof. Gregory, of Edinburg, author of a work on theory and practice of physic: "Gentlemen, ninetynine out of every hundred medical...doctrines are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense. '\ John Abernethy, MD, of London, says, in his works: " There has been a great increase of medical... | |
 | 1880 - 702 pages
...best art was an open failure. Prof. Gregory, among the highest of England's physicians, boldly wrote, "Ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies; and medical doctrines are little better than stark, staring nonsense." The eminent Bichat, of France, wrote, "Medicine is an... | |
 | john henry smith - 1884 - 858 pages
...trade." Professor James Gregory said in one of his lectures — " Gentlemen, ninetynine out of every one hundred medical facts are medical lies, and medical doctrines are for the most part staring nonsense." Professor Magendie, MD—" The physician mixes, combines and jumbles together vegetable,... | |
 | Ralston Health Club - Food - 1895 - 338 pages
...the Edinburgh Medical College, to his medical class, said : " Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every one hundred medical facts are medical lies, and medical...are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." Dr. Mason Good says : " My experience with materia medica has proved it the baseless fabric of a dream,... | |
 | Eustace Miles - Vegetarianism - 1900 - 372 pages
...destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined." " Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of a hundred medical facts are medical lies ; and medical...are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense." Alexander Haig (" Uric Acid.") " I believe that I do not exaggerate when I say that the effect of getting... | |
 | 1900 - 734 pages
...trade." Professor James Gregory said in one of his lectures. — "Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every one hundred medical facts are medical lies, and medical doctrines are for the most part staring nonsense." Professor Magandie, MD — "The physician mixes, combines and jumbles together vegetable,... | |
 | G. B. Moore - Conduct of life - 1901 - 310 pages
...not from the medical profession itself. Professor Gregory, of Edinburgh, told a medical class that " ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are...doctrines are for the most part stark, staring nonsense." Dr. Rainage, FRS, thought the present system of medicine a burning shame to its professors. We need... | |
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Gentlemen, ninety-nine out of every hundred medical facts are medical lies, and medical doctrines are, for the most part, stark, staring nonsense. 
