Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy, Volume 29, Part 2

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Page 785 - But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality, There is no fellow in the firmament.
Page 618 - The legislature may pass laws prescribing the qualifications of practitioners of medicine in this state, and to punish persons for malpractice, but no preference shall ever be given by law to any schools of medicine.
Page 535 - States, or of some foreign country, or who cannot produce a certificate of qualification from some State or county medical society, and is not a person of good moral character...
Page 97 - That in a lesser, but still not a small proportion, the disease is cured by nature in spite of them ; in other words, their interference opposing, instead of assisting the cure.
Page 97 - That consequently, in a considerable proportion of diseases, it would fare as well or better with patients, in the actual condition of the medical art, as more generally practised, if all remedies — at least, all active remedies, especially drugs — were abandoned.
Page 507 - Beach, a graduate of the medical department of the University of New York, a member of the New York County Medical Society (regular).
Page 785 - Bacon, we think, as he appears in the first book of the Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great lawgiver looking round from his lonely elevation on an infinite expanse ; behind him a wilderness of dreary sands and bitter waters, in which successive generations have sojourned, always moving, yet never advancing, reaping no harvest, and building no abiding city ; before him a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey ; while...
Page 102 - That by introducing the returns of homoeopathic practitioners, they would not only compromise the value and utility of their averages of cure as deduced from the operation of known remedies, but they would give an unjustifiable sanction to an empirical practice alike opposed to the maintenance of truth and to the progress of science.
Page 365 - Examination an Obligation to adopt or refrain from adopting the Practice of any particular Theory of Medicine or Surgery, as a Test or Condition of admitting him to Examination or of granting a Certificate...
Page 103 - In the midst of the disgust and shame which one must feel at such proceedings as you have alluded to, it is some consolation to the advocates of the system denounced to see that there is something of a testimony borne to them by their adversaries, who dare not trust the cause to the decision of reason and experience, but resort to such expedients as might as easily be employed for a bad cause as a good one.

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