Excerpt from Principles of Therapeutics
I dedicate this book to young physicians: they will work for a renaissance in Therapeutics which will be the great achievement of twentieth-century medicine.
There is a general impression that Therapeutics is a very imperfect science. It would be more exact to say that it is an encumbered science, which is not studied with the attention it deserves, nor is it practised with sufficient precision. Hence, it often is tainted with fanciful and erroneous views. I shall be happy if I succeed in laying down principles to guide the young physician in the right direction.
This book represents a far more considerable amount of labor than its size would suggest. The principles expounded herein are very numerous. I shall here refer only to the most important.
I have endeavored to demonstrate that Therapeutics may be, and should always be, scientific, viz., an enemy to fanciful theories, hypothetical and hazardous deductions, and incomplete and superficial observations.
I have also shown what therapeutic actions are, distinguished from so-called physiological actions, which are often toxic. I have, therefore, repeatedly combated the principle of physiological therapeutics, which has been a grave error. The latter often leads to the accumulation of medicinal and morbid poisons in the same organism or the same organ.
A chapter is devoted to the differentiation of the various objects which a therapeutist may desire to attain.
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