 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1877 - 704 pages
...crowning spire before the foundation-stones of the temple are laid. To deny, as has been done, tne existence or value of medicines of this class because...absurd as to deny the existence of the syphilitic and the rheumatic dyscrasia because we do not know their ultimate nature. Let us be content, until... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - 1877 - 624 pages
...pave the way for forthcoming investigations, which may tend to clear up our imperfect knowledge. " To deny, as has been done, the existence or value of medicines of this class hecause we cannot tell why mercury relieves syphilis, or why iodide of potassium cures rheumatism,... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - Therapeutics - 1880 - 124 pages
...perhaps pave the way for forthcoming investigations, which may tend to clear up our imperfect knowledge. "To deny, as has been done, the existence or value...rheumatic dyscrasia, because we do not know their ultimate nature.1' (Wood.) Arsenic is a powerful alterative. We have seen before that it was a stomachic. The... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - Chemotherapy - 1881 - 144 pages
...surfaces, and probably stimulates their activity, and so alters the condition of the system. ' To deny the existence or value of medicines of this class...dyscrasia, because we do not know their ultimate nature' (HC Wood). As to how to use these alteratives a few illustrations may be given. Thus in rheumatic pains... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1883 - 750 pages
...absurd to gaze into mid-air for the crowning spire before the foundation-stones of the temple are laid. To deny, as has been done, the existence or value...absurd as to deny the existence of the syphilitic and the rheumatic dyscrasia because we do not know their ultimate nature, i,et us be content, until... | |
 | J. Milner Fothergill - Diet in disease - 1884 - 152 pages
...surfaces, and probably stimulates their activity, and SQ alters the condition of the system. " To deny the existence or value of medicines of this class...dyscrasia, because we do not know their ultimate nature." (H. 0. Wood). As to how to use these alteratives, a few illustrations may be given. Thus in rheumatic... | |
 | Charles Creighton - Diseases - 1886 - 280 pages
...legs (a sort of numbness in the heel) and general debility. I ate and slept very well, but could riot exert myself. I have no doubt the symptoms were aggravated...clear about retaining them as a class, approximately defined : " Custom has now excluded from this class all medicines which give external signs of vigorous... | |
 | J. Milner Fothergill - Medicine - 1887 - 708 pages
...pave the way for forthcoming investigations, which may tend to clear up our imperfect knowledge. " To deny, as has been done, the existence or value...dyscrasia, because we do not know their ultimate nature." (Wood.) Arsenic is a powerful alterative. We have seen before that it was a stomachic. The union of... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1887 - 794 pages
...absurd to gaze into mid-air for the crowning spire before the foundation-stones of the temple are laid. To deny, as has been done, the existence or value of medicines of thb class because we cannot tell why mercury relieves syphilis or why iodide of potassium cures rheumatism,... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1888 - 922 pages
...absurd to gaze into mid-air for the crowning spire before the foundation-stones of the temple are laid. To deny, as has been done, the existence or value...absurd as to deny the existence of the syphilitic and the rheumatic dyscrasia because we do not know their ultimate nature. Let us be content, until... | |
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To deny, as has been done, the existence or value of medicines of this class because we cannot tell why mercury relieves syphilis or why iodide of potassium cures rheumatism, is as absurd as to deny the existence of the syphilitic and the rheumatic dyscrasia... 
