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On the Mutual Action of the Elements of Soluble Salts without and within the Animal Economy

1866; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 75; Issue: 22 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm186612270752205

2331-4710

M. Melsens,

Physics and Engineering Research Articles

Hahncmann, «fee, have still their followers, and theso latter their patients.Ahl let not that surprise, and much less entice you to follow any other patli than that which I have proved to be the most conformable with experience, the most beneficial, nay, exclusively so, to humanity.The " green ass," in the fable of Geliert,* will always have a great number of followers ; and if to-day, at this very hour, Cicero proceeded to the piazza of St. Peter's to deliver one of his renowned orations, and Cagliostro to the " Piazza del Popólo " to display his impostures, you would see that Cicero would be honored with but a small audience and chary applause, Cagliostro by a con- course of people frantically bent on admiring him.And what, gen- tlemen, is the true reason of all this ?Here it is for you, in two words.The five senses are common to all, good sense the privilege only of a few ; for which reason the great orator would have" been understood and applauded but by a small number, the celebrated impostor by a large multitude.Solaced, therefore, by this truth, though hard it be, let us under- take, with alacrity, the study of this' most difficult art, and approaching patients, let us ever bear in mind, that following in the steps of Hippocrates, we arc not here, properly speaking, to cure them, but to aid their respective natures in doing so." Medicus curat, natura sanat.