...poor." But Voltaire, on another occasion, gave a definition thus: — " Physician — a man who pours drugs, of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." Even Lord Bacon, earnest as he was in expressing his gratification at the progress made in his own...

...others. Then the sneer of Voltaire will no longer have any basis in fact : " The doctor is one who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." Professor Tyndall says that " hitherto medicine has been a collection of empirical rules, interpreted...

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...it impossible for even a cynic to say, with any show of truth, that a physician is ' one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.' " Before leaving this lecture, we think it interesting to quote the editorial remarks of the Medical...

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...venture to break the rule and enquire, what is a doctor, anyhow ? Voltaire says : " He is one who pours drugs of which he knows little, into a body of which he knows less." Swift says : "Apollo was the god of physic and the sender of diseases. Both were originally of the...

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...called upon to treat, that we may escape the satire of Voltaire, that a physician is one who gives drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less ; then we should thoroughly understand the natural history of disease, that we may not arrogate for...

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...are, other things are more important, and therefore the sarcasm that ' the doctor is a man who puts drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows lesa ' falls powerless bn the scientific follower of medicine. We have, indeed, discovered new drugs,...