Handbook of Therapy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Handbook of Therapy While Simplicity in prescription-writing is advisable, it cannot be gainsaid that the art of combining drugs or of rendering a drug less disagreeable should be taught in the medical schools. Even with this laudable Object in view, however, it is not justifiable for a physician to belittle his profession and forget rational ity in his treatment of a patient, to say nothing of the enormous graft which he hands the proprietary firms from the pockets of his patients, by ordering proprietary mixtures, The physician who orders such preparations does not realize the' positive harm he Often does his patients, in some instances almost amounting to criminal negligence. NO one deems it reputable, or scientific, or just to patients to prescribe preparations the ingredients of which he does not know. This is little less than malpractice. With the aid of an honest druggist, by means of our Pharma copeia and National Formulary, we hardly need a Single proprietary mixture in the medicinal treatment of disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.