A Discourse Addressed to the Kentucky State Medical Society at Its Annual

Joshua Barker Flint

ISBN 10: 0260238600 / ISBN 13: 9780260238603

Edité par Forgotten Books, 2017

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Print on Demand. This book speaks to medical students and practitioners alike, offering insights into the evolution of medicine and its practices. The author, a medical expert himself, argues for a balanced approach to patient care that marries the latest in scientific knowledge with tried and true therapeutic methods. Rather than a clean break from the past, he posits that the future of medicine lies in a harmonious synthesis of the old and new. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titre: A Discourse Addressed to the Kentucky State Medical Society at Its Annual
• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0260238600
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780260238603
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New
• Type de livre: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from A Discourse Addressed to the Kentucky State Medical Society at Its Annual Meeting: Held in Lebanon, April 18, 1859

In the above cautionary remarks of Prof. Bennett, we have the true explanation of the medical infidelity so often referred to and deprecated in certam conservative quarters, as they claim to be, and which is, by the same parties, charged upon the influence of those who are the advocates of a more natu ral and liberal system of therapeutics. The want of faith is not in a wise and intelligent professional care of the sick a care that employs in their behalf, all the various agencies that are known to influence favorably, the restorative efforts of nature but in that exclusive and o ci0us care that relies mainly upon the administration of medicines, and the introduction of special antidotes. To this class of medical infidels, the present speaker has long professed to belong, and he may add, has not been altogether without some experience of the penalties which the orthodox party, as they deem themselves, in church, state, and profession, think it fair to impose as the price of the privilege of independent thought and action. In early professional life he was led to scrutinize more rigorously than many others, the anti dotal relations then taught to exist between diseases and their remedies, and which constituted a part of the medical creed of the times. Every year's persistent attention to the subject, has more and more convinced him that those relations are so im perfectly understood by the most intelligent practitioners, and so misunderstood by others, as to constitute a very uncertain and unsafe basis of practice, and are yet so authoritative as to encourage a reckless and pernicious employment of medicinal agents.