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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... TESTIMONIES OF CELEBRATED ALLOPATHIC PHYSICIANS AND OTHER LEARNED MEN UPON THE ALLOPATHIC SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. ECERHAVE. If we compare the good which a half dozen true sons of iEsculapius have accomplished since the origin of their art, with the evil the innumerable multitude of doctors of this trade have done, we shall not hesitate to conclude that it would have been far better, if there never had been physicians in the world. HELMONT. Thereupon the physicians mingle one mixture with another, and give over and over to the sick a slipslop, sticking into it a thousand kinds of things, that if one does not help another may, or they can at least excuse themselves with saying they have so directed the cure of this or that patient as is the customary and usual way. A murderous devil has taken possession of the physician's chair; for only a devil could recommend bleeding to physicians as a necessary means. PETER FRANK. In the still sick-chamber thousands are slowly sacrificed, and it amounts to the same thing whether they have been lost to the state by one or by many diseases. BERGK. The history of medicine avouches the truth that millions have fallen sacrifice by the hands of physicians; and the remedies which are given in the present practice, are security that innumerable victims will yet fall. BERGK. Eveiy system has required innumerable victims, and the art of curing has perfected itself through different systems in such a way down to the present time, as that every patient should be carefully warned against the doctors who practise this art. GIRTANNER. The apparatus medicaminum is nothing elsejthan a careful collection of all the fallacies that physicians have ever fallen into. Some just opinions founded on experience are mingled with thera, --but who will...