Medical Fashions in the Nineteenth Century: Including a Sketch of Bacterio-Mania and the Battle of the Bacilli (Classic Reprint)

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IT is now considerably more than a quarter of a century since I first entered the portals of the medical profession. During that time the art of healing has undergone numerous, some of them very remarkable changes. Theory has displaced theory, this remedy has supplanted that, and one method of practice has been entirely superseded by another. Some so-called improvements have proved to be simply changes in the cycle of fashion, and nothing more, and thusi presume it always will be.

We medical men of the present day are apt to flatter ourselves, that, compared with our great grandfathers who practised before us, we are vastly superior both in knowledge and practice. And although there is abundant reason to be thankful that medical education and skill have been, and still are progressive, it is just within the range of possibility that something may be said in favour of the antiquated, and'now, alas! Too much despised practice of our predecessors.

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