"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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"Notwithstanding all our boasted improvements, patients
suffer as much as they did forty years ago."
Prof. Alex Stephens. M.D.
"All our curative agents are poisons, and as a consequence, every does diminishes the patients vitality."
Prof. Alamo Clark. M.D.
"The science medicine is founded on conjecture and improve-
ed by murder." Sir Astley Cooper. Fellow of the Londen
College of Physicians an Surgeons.
"There has been a great increase of medical men
of late, but, upon my life, diseases have increased in prop-
ortion." John Aernethy. M.D.
"More infantile subjects are diurnally destroyed by the
mortar and pestle, than in the ancient Bethlehem fell vict-
ims in one day to the Herodian massacre."
Prof. Reid, of Edinburgh, Scotland.
"Some patients get well with the aid of medicine, more
without; and still more in spite of it."
Sir John Forbes. M.D. F.R.S. Physician to Queen Victoria.
"Gentlemen, ninety nine out of every hundred medical
facts are medical lies; and medical doctrines are, for the
most part, stark, staring nonsense."
Prof. Gregory.

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