An Epitome of the American Eclectic Practice of Medicine
Surgery, Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and Children, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, with Glossary, Designed for Physicians, the Student of Medicine, and As a Domestic Practice for Families
Description:... Excerpt from An Epitome of the American Eclectic Practice of Medicine: Surgery, Obstetrics, Diseases of Women and Children, Materia Medica and Pharmacy, With Glossary, Designed for Physicians, the Student of Medicine, and as a Domestic Practice for Families The present state of society is admitted to be one of great in telligence, and as such, demands a thorough revolution in all those systems which ignorance has originated and self-interest kept alive. The supporters and advocates of such systems not only assume to be wise, but condemn every thing which is 0p posed to their prejudices and inherited opinions. This is now the case with the old school or aliopathic system of medicine. This system is a thing of the past, a product of the dark ages, and bears upon its face the ancient date of its birth. Its great object and aim are secrecy, and when scrutinized by the light of the science and intelligence of the nineteenth century, its fallacies, deformities and imperfections make a most unseemly exhibition. Its advocates, notwithstanding, assume the preroga tive of infallibility, and like the priests of old, are doing all in their power to keep the world in ignorance, not only as to the real nature of their system of medicine, but of all other sys tems, and in this they have too well succeeded for the good of mankind. All other cognate sciences are presented to an in telligent people in harmony with the progressive spirit of the age, elucidated and explained in a manner calculated to impress.
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