Elisha Bartlett Quotes

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The natural history of cinchona, its botanical character and relations, its geographical distribution, its anatomy and physiology, its chemical constitution, do not involve in any way its therapeutical properties; they do not even indicate them, or throw any light upon them.

Elisha Bartlett
Let chemistry push her researches into the remotest accessible recesses of the living economy, and let her claim, for her own, every process, every act, every transformation, over which she can establish a legitimate jurisdiction.

Elisha Bartlett
The science of medicine issues finally in the end of therapeutics. This is its consummation - its great end and purpose. Anatomy, physiology, pathology - the entire natural history of disease - materia medica - all are preliminary, more or less direct and essential, for the cure or mitigation of disease.

Elisha Bartlett
The hold which medicine has so long held upon the popular mind is loosened; there is a wide-spread skepticism as to the power of its curing diseases, and men are everywhere to be found who deny its pretensions as a science, and reject the benefits and blessings which it proffers them as an art.

Elisha Bartlett
The great purpose of this study [medicine] is to make the physician; and the physician is he who, within the limits and conditions of his science and art, prevents, mitigates, and cures disease.

Elisha Bartlett
With certain limited exceptions, the laws of physical science are positive and absolute, both in their aggregate, and in their elements, — in their sum, and in their details; but the ascertainable laws of the science of life are approximative only, and not absolute.

Elisha Bartlett