A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes.

  • Holmes, John Pocock.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma and other maladies / by John Pocock Holmes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where regular medical men administer remedies unknown to themselves, such as the “Eau Medicinale,” “ James’s Powder,” &c. (though the practice has been fol- lowed by physicians conventionally of the highest rank,) for those being in darkness as to the properties of the substances they employ, are consequently unable to ad- vance the doses to their effective propor- tions, or to diminish them where ano- malous symptoms occur which may be due to their effects. In fine, all secret remedies administered indiscriminately, or by per- sons unacquainted with their composition, are dangerous and improper. The whole system is bad. But the case of a medicine administered by the discoverer, when that discoverer dis- plays proofs of experience, and has under- gone the regular examinations, by which his knowledge of his profession has been tested, is very different. The most preju- diced cannot deny that the mere circum- stances of a man’s publishing to another a secret, or reserving it to himself, can be no