 Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily she has been in medicine rather a blind leader of the blind; and the history of medical progress is a history of men groping in the darkness, finding seeming gems of truth one after another, only in...  A Treatise on therapeutics - Page viby Horatio Charles Wood - 1887 - 779 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homeopathy - 1848 - 494 pages
...forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for " verities. In the past, there is scarcly a conceivable absurdity that men " have not tested by experience, and for a time found it to be the thing " desired ; in the present, hoinneopathy and other similar delusions are " eagerly... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1875 - 650 pages
...forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for '' verities. In the past, there is scarcly a conceivable absurdity that men " have not tested by experience, and for a time found it to be the thing " desired ; in the present, homosopathy and other similar delusions are " eagerly... | |
 | 1883 - 408 pages
...that opium will quiet pain and lull to sleep." " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. ... In the past there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity...time found to be the thing desired; in the present, homeopathy and other similar delusions are eagerly embraced and honestly believed in by men who rest... | |
 | Clinical medicine - 1903 - 384 pages
...only in a few minutes to east each back to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day bad also been mistaken for verities. In the past there...experience and for a time found to be the thing desired. Looking at the revolutions and contradictions of the past, listening to the therapeutic Babel of the... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1892 - 960 pages
...to tho vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In tho past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that...not tested by experience and for a time found to be tho thing desired; in tho present, homoeopathy and •other similar delusions are eagerly embraced... | |
 | Horatio Charles Wood - 1894 - 1050 pages
...to tho vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In tho past, there is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that...have not tested by experience and for a time found to bo the thing desired; in the present, homoeopathy and other similar delusions are eagerly embraced... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - Homeopathy - 1896 - 1302 pages
...forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. In the past, there is scarely a conceivable absurdity that men have not tested by...time, found to be the thing desired ; in the present, Homeopathy, and other similar delusions, are eagerly embraced and honestly believed in by men who rest... | |
 | Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Ohio - Homeopathy - 1898 - 360 pages
...regarding the merits of their respective methods. Wood places little value on the empirical practice. " Experience is said to be the mother of wisdom. Verily...experience and for a time found to be the thing desired." Brunton, too, evidently prefers some other method than "the accumulated experience of the profession."... | |
 | National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America - 1898 - 326 pages
...Yet with what a Babel of discordant voices does it celebrate its two thousand years of experience. in their day had also been mistaken for verities....time found to be the thing desired ; in the present homeopathy and other similar delusions are eagerly embraced and honestly believed in by men who rest... | |
 | Medicine - 1909 - 548 pages
...to the vast heap of forgotten baubles that in their day had also been mistaken for verities. * * * There is scarcely a conceivable absurdity that men...experience and for a time found to be the thing desired. "Looking at the revolutions and contradictions of the past, listening to the therapeutic Babel of the... | |
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