The higher medicine / by J. Stenson Hooker.

  • Hooker, J. Stenson.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The higher medicine / by J. Stenson Hooker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    scientific name. The mighty forces of light and electricity have been s^eized upon, harnessed, and made ancillary to suffering humanity. Much of the crude drugging of late years has been allowed to lapse, or has been pushed aside by the many preparations of Medicine of a more elegant and compressed form. The serum treatment has come in as it were, upon the shoulders of great men and still appears to find favour among a large class of practitioners. The rage for physical culture is increasing ; the all- important question of diet is being studied more intelligently than ever before and by a greater number of us. “ Nature Cures ” are all in fashion, and even medical men are preaching—and a few of them living up to—the “ Simple Life.” But we shall have to consider these forces and systems seriatim however briefly, their influence upon the general health of the nation, how far they have justified their claims, and above all, whether they are not precursors to a more exact and a more unified system of Medicine—for, as stated above, we are as yet much in need of fixed laws in Medicine. We want anchorage. Too long has the art been drifting in an ocean of uncertainty ; at times indeed, as witness for example the case of the Sanatorium treatment of phthisis, we seemed to have touched a firm and unshifting shore, but alas! we have found that the