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

  • Hare, Charles J.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Good remedies--out of fashion / by Charles J. Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    less strong as regards the advantages to be derived from the right and judicious use of the remedies to which I have been referring, than they were with respect to the evil produced by the indiscriminate use of alcohol; and, entertaining vividly these con- victions, I should be unworthy of the position with which you have honored me, if I had hesitated to express and to enforce them. It is for you, gentle- men, to consider the suggestions I have made ; to cull out what may appear reasonable ; to put them to the test of experience; to alter and modify your conclusions accordingly, and so to guide your prac- tice : and if, as I trust, at least some slight modifi- cation of treatment may ensue from the words I have spoken here, tending to relieve pain, to shorten the course of disease, or perhaps to prolong life, I feel that, even when I have passed away, I may still be, in a sense, a fellow-worker with you in the cause of humanity: and once more I thank you most sincerely for having been given, by your kind- ness, the opportunity of expressing my views from the high and dignified position of your Presidential Chair. LIBRARY