| 1852 - 542 pages
...one's friends." Thus testifies Dr. Jamieson, of Edinburgh: — "The present practice of medicine is n reproach to the name of science, while its professors give evidence of an almost total want of the true knowledge of the nature or proper treatment of disease. In most cases, mere symptoms... | |
| Education - 1911 - 322 pages
...will bring relief to the sufferer or hasten his death. I regret that I have practiced medicine, when nine times out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to our patients suffering from diseases of whose real character and real cause we are absolutely ignorant." Prof. AH Stevens... | |
| Aaron Stevens Hayward - Magnetic healing - 1873 - 252 pages
...the top, and cracked at the foundation." Dr. Jamieson of Edinburgh said that "nine times out often our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to...character and cause we are most culpably ignorant." Dr. James Jackson of Boston, a highly educated physician, propounded the following questions. "Shall... | |
| Medicine - 1910 - 806 pages
...science, while its professors give evidence of an almost total want of true knowledge of the nature or proper treatment of disease. Nine times out of ten...character and cause we are most culpably ignorant." — Jameson. "I hesitate not to declare, no matter how sorely I shall wound our vanity, that so gross... | |
| George F. Adams (M.D.) - Baths, Turkish - 1881 - 318 pages
...called by that name." And Prof. Jamieson, of Edinburgh, regards " The present practice of medicine " as a " reproach to the name of science, while its professors...ignorance of the nature and proper treatment of disease." Turning from the above excellent authorities, lei us take a single quotation from that able and orthodox... | |
| Medicine - 1899 - 552 pages
...said: "Thousands are annually slaughtered in the quiet sickroom." Professor Jameson, of Edinburg, said: "Nine times out of ten our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to our patients. " The great Dr. Baillie, of London, said: " I have no faith whatever in medicine." I could quote utterances... | |
| Philosophy - 1885 - 360 pages
...essential nature of disease — in fact, nothing at all." Prof. Jamison, of Edinburgh, Scotland, says: " The present practice of medicine is a reproach to...of science, while its professors give evidence of the almost total ignorance of the nature and proper treatment of disease." The old animistic idea,... | |
| Eustace Miles - Vegetarianism - 1900 - 372 pages
...of their means of sustenance." (Reinhold : but see p. 156 foll. EHM) Prof. Jameison (Edinburgh). " Nine times out of ten, our miscalled remedies are...diseases of whose real character and cause we are culpably ignorant." Dr. James Johnson, MD, FRS (Editor of " The Medical Chirurgical Review "). " I... | |
| Chas. A. Tyrrell, M.D. - 1901 - 232 pages
...brethren to warrant the strong language I employ." — Dr. RAMAGE, Fellow of the Royal College, London. "The present practice of medicine is a reproach to...character and cause we are most culpably ignorant." — Prof. JAMEISON, of Edinburgh. "Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call... | |
| Louis Blumer - Mental healing - 1909 - 114 pages
...destroyed more lives than war, pestilence and famine combined." Testimony of Dr. Jameson of Edinburg: "The present practice of medicine is a reproach to...while its professors give evidence of an almost total want of true knowledge of the nature or proper treatment of disease. Nine times out of ten our miscalled... | |
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