 | 1846 - 576 pàgines
...the remedies administered by him exert any beneficial influence over the disease T" And again says of the condition of physic at this moment: "Things have...that they cannot be worse. They must mend or end." Who would expect him to admit all this and " still adhere to allaaopathy ;" " while it inflicts on... | |
 | 1850 - 598 pàgines
...be regarded as yet in its merest infancy ; " more strongly indeed, he says on the following page : " Things have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse. They must mend or end." VOL. II. — NO. I. 4 It was then not only justifiable but necessary, that an attempt should be made... | |
 | 1851 - 862 pàgines
...03 truth." — RUSH. To these statements of Dr. Rash may be added the conclusions of Dr. Forbes. " And such, in truth, do we believe to be literally...moment. Things have arrived at such a pitch, that they caunot be worse. They must mend or end. We believe that they will mend. " In finishing onr examination... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1851 - 168 pàgines
...essay, in which he speaks of the advance which has been made in practical medicine. His language is : " Things have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse. They must mend or end." Even upon his own showing, things have been worse. They have been most obviously mending, and that... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pàgines
...present condition of medicine, Dr. Forbes j dinary practice of physic is found in the sequela of »ys: " Things have arrived at such a pitch that they cannot be worse. They must mend or end." Thus we have the testimony of eminent men that the ancients knew nothing of disease, and moderns are... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1852 - 456 pàgines
...vivacious and vigorous than at any preceding time ; her countenance is merely ' sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,' from the strength of her...truth, do we believe to be, literally, the condition of physio at this moment. Things have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse. They must mend... | |
 | 1852 - 604 pàgines
...afflicting humanity, namely, the old school practice of medicine, concerning which Dr. Forbes says, ' Things have arrived at such a pitch that they cannot be worse ; they mnet either mend or end.' It is truly humiliating in this age of freetrade to behold a body of men... | |
 | 1854 - 206 pàgines
...neither happy, nor prosperous ; yea, she seems sick, very sick ; her countenance is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, from the strength of her...condition of physic at this moment. Things have arrived to such a pitch that they .cannot be worse. These must mend or end." Those of us, gentlemen of the... | |
 | 1008 pàgines
...medicine was founded on conjecture *nd improved by murder." Upon the whole, Sir John Forbes thinks " Things have arrived at such a pitch that they cannot be worse. They must end, or mend !" Well, so we should think, after reading these testimonies, pronounced by the accredited... | |
 | Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1863 - 202 pàgines
...all remedies, at least all active remedies, especially drugs, were abandoned." "Things [in medicine] have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse; they must mend or end." (B. and F. Med. -Rev., XLI, 1846.) Such views have been repeatedly expressed by members of the medical... | |
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And such, in truth do we believe to be, literally, the condition of physic at this moment. Things have arrived at such a pitch, that they cannot be worse. They must mend or end. 
