6. THE LIBERTY OF CONSCIOUS HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSAL FORCES
EMBRACES THE INTELLIGENT USE OF THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. The
science of medicine is fairly indicated for our present purpose in
the following quotation--from Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes:
"What is the honest truth about the medical art? That by far the
largest number of diseases which physicians are called upon to
treat will get well at any rate, even in spite of reasonably bad
treatment. That of the other fraction, a certain number will
certainly die, whatever is done. That there remains a small number
of cases where the life of the patient depends on the skill of the
physician. That drugs now and then save life; that they often
shorten disease and remove symptoms; but that they are second in
importance to food, air, temperature, and the other hygienic
influences. Throw out opium; throw out wine, and the vapors which
produce the miracle of anesthesia, and I firmly believe that if
the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom
of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind.
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