...what infinite mischief must be hourly produced by the patient, and still more ignorant quack, pouring drugs, of which they know little, into a body, of which they know less ?" If then the medicines of the apothecary are scarcely to be employed in the cure of nervous...

...infinite mischief must be hourly produced by the patient, and the still more ignorant quack, pouring drugs of which they know little, into a body of which they know less ! The dictionaries of popular medicine, and gazettes of health slay annually their thousands...

...practitioners are still numerous in other countries as well as China, of whom it may be said, " They pour drugs of which they know little into a body of which they know less." Of botany the Chinese have a sufficient knowledge to enable them to collect and arrange...

...were more often obeyed, such maledictions like that of Voltaire: "That doctors are people who pour drugs, of which they know little, into a body, of which they know less, " would prove fatuous in lieu of conveying a moiety of reason. Finally; our vaunted therapeutic...

...prescription correctly is a monument to our predecessors. Voltaire said, " Doctors are people who pour drugs, of which they know little, into a body, of which they know less." Of medicine, Plato said, "An art which considers the constitution of the patient and has...

...himself made the corpus vile for the experiments of quacks, basely fumbling in the dark, and inserting drugs of which they know little, into a body of which they know nothing. At such a moment the Balaam of Timbuctoo, prepared only by the lawful wives of the Emperor...

...nineteenth century we no longer think of physicians as they did in years gone by as people who " put drugs of which they know little into a body of which they know less." We think medical science has reached such a stage that our doctors know all about everything...