Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker.

  • Moschzisker, F. A. von (Franz Adolph)
Date:
1860
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Credit: Medical and surgical science in the United States, specialties, empiricism, &C : enlarged from an article published in the New Orleans Picayune of Feb. 14, 1860 / by F.A. von Moschzisker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From an Article in the Picayune of February Ut/i, 18G0. When any epidemic disease, such as the cholera, small pox, or yellow fever, prevails to any great extent in the country, the public be- comes greatly excited and alarmed, and the papers are filled with treatises upon the sub- ject. Physiology, pathology, and the whole therapeutic and materia medica are exhausted by the learned and the unlearned disciples of Esculapius, in their efforts to stay the fell de- stroyer. These treatises, however, are gene- rally clothed in the language of the schools, that the vulgar and the unlettered may be for- ever shut out from the benefits and the myste- ries of these close corporations, established by Hippocrates several thousand years ago. But, Messrs. Editors, these are not the only mala- dies which require care and consideration. There are others, prevailing to an alarming extent in this country, which, although not p:irtliking of the nature of an epidemic, and not by any means as fatal, are nevertheless