Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Addressed to the Graduating Class, of Rush Medical College: Feb; 17, 1848
Again, the Virtuesiof remedies are sought for, by administer; ing'them in disease. Under the most, favorable circumstance, nothing could be discovered definitely of the Virtues! Of reme dies by thismethod - z-for no mortal could determine with pre cision', which symptoms were the effects of the drug and which the efi'ect of the disease, or whether they were not (in part or wholly the resultant of the combined forces, both of the dis ease and the drug. But how much more uncertain are the re sults when the drug is given with half a dozen others, more or less, of which little or nothin?' is known, and the uncertainty is still increased by giving the drugs in such large doses, that 111 stead of producing their Specific effects they excite the system to throw them ofi'.
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