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Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science
Currents and Countercurrents in Medical Science Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME MORE RECENT VIEWS ON HOMCEOPATHY. A NOTICE OF THE " HOMOEOPATHIC DOMESTIC PHYSICIAN." FROM THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOE DECEMBER, 1857. HOMOEOPATHY.... more » The book referred to beneath lies before us with its valves open, helpless as an oyster on its shell, inviting the critical pungent, the professional acid, and the judicial impaling trident. We will be merciful. This fat little literary mollusk is well-conditioned, of fair aspect, and seemingly good of its kind. Twenty- four thousand individuals, — we have its title-page as authority, — more or less lineal descendants of Solomon, have become the fortunate possessors of this plethoric guide to earthly immortality. They might have done worse ; for the work is well printed, well arranged, and typographically creditable to the great publishing-house which honors Cincinnati by its intelligent enterprise. The purchasers have done very wisely in buying a book which will not hurt their eyes. Mr. Otis Clapp, bibliopolist, has the work, and will be pleased to supply it to an indefinite number of the family above referred to. Homoeopathic Domestic Physician, etc., by J. H. Pultb, M. D. Cincinnati. 1857. Men live in the immediate neighborhood of a great menagerie, the doors of which are always open. The beasts of prey that come out are called diseases. They feed upon us, and between their teeth we must all pass sooner or later, — all but a few, who are otherwise taken care of. When these animals attack a man, most of them give him a scratch or a bite, and let him go. Some hold on a little while ; some are carried about for weeks or months, until the carrier drops down, or they drop off. By and by one is sure to come along that drags down the strongest, and makes an end of him. Most people know little or nothing of these...« less