A treatise on typhoid fever, pneumonia, and other diseases, including a large number of clinical cases : also, the treatment of some diseases of animals / by T.M. Sime.

  • Sime, T. M.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A treatise on typhoid fever, pneumonia, and other diseases, including a large number of clinical cases : also, the treatment of some diseases of animals / by T.M. Sime. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    book will not, I presume, be acceptable, as in it, and especially in ray clinical cases, I aim to show or illus- trate the advantage of remedies selected in accordance with our law of cure. To these I would say, Gentle- men, I beg of you not to throw the volume aside with those miserably ignorant, slang epithets, Little pills and solutions of the Mississippi, but as gentlemen and educated men, looking and thirsting for scientific truth, study for yourselves, by careful experiment with the drugs you are daily using on well tissue, that great law of cure, similia similibus curantur which God has placed as the basis of all true therapeutic knowledge. Then you will be better able to appreciate in some degree my labors, and you would differ in opinion, on the subject of therapeutics, with the great masses around you, beginning away back with Esculapius, who administered many of his remedies because they had been used by his neighbors. Then you will be ready with me to rejoice in reading the synopsis of. a lecture delivered, a few months ago, by the gentleman occu- pying the chair of materia medica and practice at that grand old institution, Bellevue Medical College, in the city of New York, where, in 1865, I spent my first college term. Gentlemen, he says, if you will put two and one-half grains of mercury into a quart of spring water of pure quality, and give your patient a tea-spoonful every hour, you will get equally good effects of the drug as if you were to give the patient at once an officinal dose; and the same will be found true of aconite napellus.