Good remedies--out of fashion / by Charles J. Hare.

  • Hare, Charles J.
Date:
1883
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    bering as I do the days of yore, I think that, deluged as we now are with so-called new remedies, such as hydrastin, iridin, sanguinarin, baptistin, glonoin, gelsemin, euonymin, mucuna, muscarin, the quack chlorodyne (of which I never in my life prescribed a single dose), eucalyptin, thymol, ingluvin, asclepedin, and a host of others, the adver- tisements of which fill the pages of our journals—I think that some valuable plans of treatment have been allowed to fall into disuse, and that there are such things as good remedies out of fashion. May I tell you my views on some of these ? Some whom I address will, without doubt, say to themselves, especially as regards certain points of practice which I urge, Why, under such circum- stances, that is exactly what I should do myself, and what has always been my practice. To each of those I would say: My brother, I am delight- ed and thankful to have my views confirmed by your experience; help me to spread more widely the principles and the practice which I believe to be fraught with good, and may we long be workers together in the same harvest-field. But I know too well that I am addressing some, especially the younger members of the profession, who will look upon these things as some strange and new doc- trine, or as prejudices clinging to me from my earlier days, or as antiquated customs of which the progress of modern science has shown the futility or the wrongness. To such I would say : My bro-