Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society, 1889: Fortieth Annual Session, Held in Indianapolis, May 1st and 2d, 1889
Giving the same remedy for all diseases of the same class, has caused a pit-fall into which many have fallen, losing sight of the great fact in the treatment of disease that each case has its own individual needs and Should be treated from that stand point alone.
The extracts, ?uid and solid, with the many palatable com pounds make the practice of medicine a pleasure as compared with the past when we had to administer the crude drugs.
The great advancement in the manifold branches of the heal ing art has gained for the profession of to-day the confidence of the public to a larger degree than the pioneers enjoyed, and now places the physician in their true light as benefactors.
I think the domain of surgery has gained by far the richest rewards from the advancement.
The introduction of anaesthetics and antiseptics with their adjuncts has made the practice of surgery a professional para dise to What it was in the early part of this century, especially to that class of surgery belonging to gynaecology.
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