A philosophy of therapeutics, the foundation of which rests upon the two postulates: First, that it is the human organism that is the active factor in ... second, that there are two therapeutic laws

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. The Dark Hour Before Dawn: The Waning of Faith in Drugs; Some Reasons Therefor, and Some Remedial Suggestions. This is an age of critical analysis, at the hands of which all things not founded in fact must suffer. As the enlightening influence of education extends among the masses of humanity, superstition and hollow pretense of all kinds must dwindle into nothingness, and hence, it becomes observable that the things pertaining to the healing of the sick, the foundations of which are apparently not in fact, are no longer treated with the respect and consideration which in the past was considered their due. Particularly is this true of much that was once deemed practical therapeutics. Questions have been asked to which answers have not yet been made, and doubts have arisen that have not only shaken the faith of the critic in a part of the fabric, but which have made many men question the utility of all drug therapeutic measures beyond the simplest mechanical means. Certainly, for a number of years past, there has been abroad in the land a lack of faith in drugs. A careful study of the subject leads to the conclusion that an ignorance of just such points as have been treated in the preceding pages, may be credited with being some of the causes of such a decadence. In any line of work the best results are secured only through systematizing the principles and facts upon which the work depends. Nothing has yet controverted the self-evident proposition that a straight line is the shortest distance between any two points. To reach a goal means the accomplishment of a purpose, and the accomplishment of a purpose means the establishment of a sequence of ideas, conditions, or things, which connect the start and the finish by the line of intent. To demon...