Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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us diseases. Local applications are often necessary,while the slow but sure work of purification is going on internally ;but to rely on them exclusively, is presumptuous, to say the least.I often find it necessary to summon electropathy or magnopathy tomy aid in battling the hydra-headed disease—consumption. Ialways prescribe invigorating and purifying blood medicines in addi-tion to medicated inhalation, and should as soon think of dipping outthe Oroton river without cutting off its tributaries, as to attempt tocure consumption without them. Conclusion. The successful physician does not ride one hobby. One-ideaismin medical practice is perfectly incompatible with uniform success. CONCLUSION. 315 Then, too, different constitutions require different remedies. Aone-cure-all is an impossibility. One hat will not fit everybodyshead—one coat everybodys back, nor one circumscribed medicalsystem everybodys disease. The medical profession generally mustmount a more comprehensive platform.
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