"Ode to Health;

Date: 1896-1903

Series: N2009-5 - Civil War veterans medical journal, 1896-1903.

Civil War Veterans Medical Journal.

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Early Florida Medicine

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anchor that moors your patient to the grave."
Prof. H.G. Cox. M.D.
"The drugs which are administered for the cure of
scarlet fever, and measles, kill far more than those
diseases do. I have recently given no medicine in
their treatment, and have had excellent success."
Prof. B.F. Baker. M.D.
"Mercury when taken in any form, is taken into
the circulation, and carried to every tissue of the body.
The effects of mercury are not for a day, but for all
time. It often lodges in the bones, ocasionally causing
pain years after it is administered. I have often de-
tected metalic mercury in the bones of patients who had
been treated with this subtle treacherous agent."
Prof. E.S. Carr. M.D.
"All medicines are poisons." Prof. S. St. John. M.D.
"As we place more confidence in Nature, and less
in preparations of the apothecary mortality diminishes."
Prof W. Parker. M.D.
"We are not acquainted with any agents that will cure
consumption. We must rely on Hygiene."
"Cream is far better for tubercular patients than cod
liver oil, or any other kind of oil." Prof. Alamo Clark. M.D.

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