Excerpt from Therapeutic Methods: An Outline of Principles Observed in the Art of Healing

In the use of the term therapeutics in this work, I shall claim for it more than conventionally allowed of late years by medical writers.

Any one who ministers to the relief of the sick by remedial measures is a therapeutist, however educated, and acting upon whatever theory, and with whatever means of cure.

The good "grandmother," among our American pioneers, with her boneset and saffron and catnip teas, was a therapeutist; and so, likewise, the "medicine man" of the aborigines, with his roots and berries and incantations.

Nor is the field of therapeutics to be limited by conventional methods and rules, so that some measures and means may come in as therapeutically indicated, while others, equally if not more important, are ranked as accessories or simple adjuvants.

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