Journal Of Therapeutics And Dietetics 1908 PDF Download

Excerpt from Journal of Therapeutics and Dietetics, Vol. 8: A Journal of Definite Medication; January, 1914 Wasch mir den Pelz aber mach mich nicht nass - Wash my skin but do not wet me. A few more words about Virchow, the practical physician. In the face of the German nihilism he preached therapy, both physical and medical. Nihilism he explained by the predominance of both exaggerated faith and of scepticism. There is, he says, a time for everything. Priest medicine was normal for a people in its infancy. The Christian Church has benefited mankind immensely. Basilius the Great and Benedict of Nursia and the priestly order of Johannes have established hospitals and charities and developed medicine, but these are historical facts which do not justify for all times a depend ency of medicine on the church. Our era is no longer Asclepiadic, nor levitic, nor monkish, nor nunnish. Our medicine is of lay char acter and will always be so. It is of empiric nature and is nursed by practitioners and clinicians, and will - here is the great prophecy pronounced forty-four years ago - rise into the dignity of a science beyond what it is at this time through its combination with patho logic physiology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.