Modern Inquiries; Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous
The book Modern Inquiries; Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous was written by author White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918. Fmo Here you can read free online of Modern Inquiries; Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Modern Inquiries; Classical, Professional, And Miscellaneous a good or bad book?
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Here she was interrupted by a bluff marketer, who somewhat rudely pronounced homoeopathy to be a great humbug, since, but a short time before, his child had eaten part of a raw pumpkin, and was seized with convulsions ; and the physician who was sent for, instead of taking meas- ures to dislodge the offending cause, took out a little book, aind, remarking to the bystanders that 17 258 THE PARADISE OF DOCTORS. " like cures like," proceeded to prescribe the hun- dred millionth part of another pum...pkin. The next person who rose was a manufacturer, who liad calculated that the homoeopathic profit on the cost of the raw material was altogether unreasonable. He had himself expended seventy-five dollars in a quarter of a grain of belladonna, so divided as to keep off scarlet fever ; but found, after all, that he had not bought enough, for his children had the disease a little worse than any of their neighbors. At last an old gentleman, moderately endowed with common sense, got up, and inquired if there was no such thing in the world as rational medicine, and whether nothing could be made acceptable to the public but extremes of absurdity.
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