A fair examination and criticism of all the medical systems in vogue / by Alva Curtis.

  • Curtis, Alva, 1797-1881.
Date:
1875
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    A FAIR EXAMINATION AND CRITICISM OF ALL T]^B MEDICAL SYSTEMS IN VOGUE: BY ALVA CURTIS,. A. M., M. D. Founder of the First Physio-Medical College in the World, viz : The Botanico-Medi CAL College of Ohio; foe Thirty Years President of its Board of Directors, AND ITS Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine ; Author OF “A Synopsis of Lectures on Medical Science,” of “ Lectures on Obstetrics,” and for Twenty-one Years Editor of the Botanico or Physio-Medical Recorder, and Member of many Literary and Philosophical Societies. “ Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say? It is not a Science tor a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puenlo, cf deceptive remedies, and of for- mnlse as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged,”—Bicliat’s General Anatomy, r?- 1, paye 17. ” But Medicine M a demonstrative Science, and all its processes «7iou7cZ he proved hy established principles, be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, is to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself.”—Prof. Samuel Jackson, M. £>., of t?us University of Pennsylvania.—Principles of Medicine. FIFTH EDITION. CINCINNATI: PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, 1875.