Practical notes on the new American and other remedies / by R. Tuthill Massy.

  • Massy, Richard Tuthill.
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[1884]
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Credit: Practical notes on the new American and other remedies / by R. Tuthill Massy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the machinery • death is the destruction of part of the machinery j and the only way in which that machi- nery can be set right, if it goes wrong, is not by sitting down and hoping—for it is not by sending for the first blacksmith who will administer his purge here and his bleeding there. We must send for our skilled engineer, who, by the help of what he calls symptoms, makes out what wheel is out of place, what flange broken, and by his previous knowledge of therapeutics that is, of the effects of remedies—knows if it be possible, and in what way, to get this wrong wheel or this broken pinion into its place again.’' The Professor reminds us of the noble Grecian who said,— “ This is true liberty, when free-born men, Having to advise the public, may speak out, Which he who can and will, deserves high praise, Who neither can nor will may hold his peace.” Euripides. Brighton, April 14, 1876. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. One of the results of the recent fire at Chicago, has been to fuse the two systems of medicine: Dr. John- son, a member of the Board of Health and Professor
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