A biography of Dr. Zalamon James McMaster : late surgeon in the United States Army / by William E. McMaster.

  • McMaster, William E.
Date:
1863
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Credit: A biography of Dr. Zalamon James McMaster : late surgeon in the United States Army / by William E. McMaster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inoculated their poisonous doctrines, until a sort of politico religious, black vomit, had seized upon the people ; and these sympathizing sugar- coated theorists, stepped forward with their Si- mi! ia Similibus Curanter as the panacea of all ills human or divine. Strongly as this fanatical infatuation is sketched, it does not exceed the facts, or the furore in that vicinity for Homeopathy at the advent of Dr. McMaster's practice; though its pretensions, like its twin humbug, Phrenology, which sought to supplant Physiology, and usurp the realms of sci- ence and the soul, were subsequently brought to the respectable position of nurse and waiting- maid to true science. Dr. McMaster's discriminating mind enabled him to detect the sophistries of plausible theories, and separate them from sound scientific princi- ples. He saw very clearly his own course, and could not be seduced—as a few of easy professional virtue were—by the allurements of temporary ad- vantage, to drift into this shallow current at the very beginning of his career. As city physician, his practice was various, and required constant reference ; for in the treatment of every case, he made it the subject of careful study and investi- gation. The object at which he aimed was to convince his judgment as to the exact nature of the disease, and then by careful reflection lay down his course of practice, by breaking up the disease in its forming stage, or to control it by