"Ode to Health;

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"The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon,
and the effects of our medicine on the human system,
in the highest degree uncertain, except indeed, that
they have destroyed more live than war, pestilence
and famine combined." John Mason Good, M.D.
F.R.S. Author of "Book of Nature." Study of Medicine 70 ???.
"I declare, as my concientious conviction, founded
on long experience, and reflection, that if there was not
a single physician, surgeon, man midwife, chemist,
apothecary, druggist, nor drug, on the face of the earth,
there would be less sickness and less mortality than
now prevail." Jas. Johnson, M.D. F.R.S.
Editor of Medico ???, Review.
"Oliver Wendell Holmes in his late speech before
the Mass, Med. Society, says, "the Presumtion always
is, that every noxious agent Including Medicine Proper,
which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one. The miserable delusion of Homocapathy builds itself on an anxiom
directly the opposite of this, namely, that the sick are to be cured by poisons. The only way to kill it, and all similar
fancies, and to throw every quack nostrum into discredit,
is to root out completely the suckers of The Old Rotten Superstition, That Whatever Is Odious or Noxious

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