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758 fifty-fifth annual session the enemy is in view, but he is not an artistic marksman and looks in faith to Mars, the God of War, rather than his gun for success. Nature, the doctor's God, has great compassion both for the doctor and his patient; covering the mistakes of the one and healing the ills of the other, in spite of the drugs shot at random to the contrary. It is a cause for professional shame that we abuse the goodness of this amicable friend by being careless, indifferent and skeptical; careless in looking for the actual cause of physiological distraction, indifferent to prescribing directly and definitely to the removal of such distraction, and skeptical as to results to be obtained by drugs other than palliative in correcting pathological processes and restoring normal function. To substantiate this accusation I submit as testimony the prescription files of any drug store in North Carolina; I submit the lists of any proprietary drug-mixing house in America; I submit the bewildering therapeutic opinions of any representative medical assembly on record. The submission of further testimony is considered unnecessary accumulation, and we ask you first to critically inspect the prescription file. Here you will find chemical incompatibles, physiological antagonists, and a greater number you may class in the shotgun variety; the first shows a lack of the chemical knowledge of drugs, the second proves a deficient understanding of their physiological action, and the third asserts both a diagnostic incapacity and a therapeutic inability. The manufacturing pharmacists or drug-mixing people are both a blessing and a curse to the profession. A blessing in that they manufacture from nature's crude storehouse clean, pure extracts, etc., indispensable in modern therapy; but a curse in that they take the initiative in compounding and mixing formulae and urging their use by the profession, claiming practical merit that is only theoretical. They advertise their stuff like patent medicine concerns, and seduce the therapeutic artist to befuddle himself with quackery, to desist from individual experimentation and observation and to become a rusty scale upon the polished art*
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-16: Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1908 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-055 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 55 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-16/nchh-16-055.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-16 |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-055 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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Fixed Title * | Page 758 |
Document Title | Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina [1891-1939] |
Subject Topical | Medicine -- North Carolina -- Societies, etc. |
Subject Topical Other | Societies, Medical -- North Carolina. |
Description | After 1939 transactions published in the North Carolina Medical Journal |
Creator | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Annual Session. |
Publisher | Raleigh, N.C. : Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1891-1939. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1908 |
Identifier | NCHH-16-055-0780 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | transactionsofme55medi_0780.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 55 |
Page Number | 758 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 758 fifty-fifth annual session the enemy is in view, but he is not an artistic marksman and looks in faith to Mars, the God of War, rather than his gun for success. Nature, the doctor's God, has great compassion both for the doctor and his patient; covering the mistakes of the one and healing the ills of the other, in spite of the drugs shot at random to the contrary. It is a cause for professional shame that we abuse the goodness of this amicable friend by being careless, indifferent and skeptical; careless in looking for the actual cause of physiological distraction, indifferent to prescribing directly and definitely to the removal of such distraction, and skeptical as to results to be obtained by drugs other than palliative in correcting pathological processes and restoring normal function. To substantiate this accusation I submit as testimony the prescription files of any drug store in North Carolina; I submit the lists of any proprietary drug-mixing house in America; I submit the bewildering therapeutic opinions of any representative medical assembly on record. The submission of further testimony is considered unnecessary accumulation, and we ask you first to critically inspect the prescription file. Here you will find chemical incompatibles, physiological antagonists, and a greater number you may class in the shotgun variety; the first shows a lack of the chemical knowledge of drugs, the second proves a deficient understanding of their physiological action, and the third asserts both a diagnostic incapacity and a therapeutic inability. The manufacturing pharmacists or drug-mixing people are both a blessing and a curse to the profession. A blessing in that they manufacture from nature's crude storehouse clean, pure extracts, etc., indispensable in modern therapy; but a curse in that they take the initiative in compounding and mixing formulae and urging their use by the profession, claiming practical merit that is only theoretical. They advertise their stuff like patent medicine concerns, and seduce the therapeutic artist to befuddle himself with quackery, to desist from individual experimentation and observation and to become a rusty scale upon the polished art* |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-16/nchh-16-055.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-d; nchh-16 |
Article Title | Therapeutics An Art. |
Article Author | W. H. Boone |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-16-055 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-16 |
Catalog Record link | http://search.lib.unc.edu/search?R=UNCb2983307 |
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