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There had been heavy bills for medicines and attendance, and the doctor had loaned him money oftentimes, with his land as security, for other debts. A little innocent saying of one of his six children to another was much repeated to the village, "Father bought you of Doctor Prescott, and paid for you with all the clover-field he had left, and you must be very good, for you came very dear."
But so strong a public sentiment had been created against the whole business of patent medicines by this time that the jury gave a verdict of only sixteen thousand dollars, with costs, against the magazine. Undaunted, Bok kept on. He now engaged Mark Sullivan, then a young lawyer in downtown New York, induced him to give up his practice, and bring his legal mind to bear upon the problem.
He declared emphatically that "the most important duty of the physician is to prevent illness." "Most patients get better without much help from the physician by the power of nature." He emphasized his distrust of using many medicines at the same time in the hope that some of them would do good.
"There is no man who gives medicine that tastes worse, and therefore must be the powerfullest. I would proscribe the doctor, sir." "You would prescribe the doctor? Ah, Felix, I am afraid my case has nothing to do with his medicines." "There is one other thing I should like to mention if I wasn't 'fraid it might offend Mr. Armstrong," said Felix, hesitatingly. "And what is that, Felix?
Do as I tell you," said the doctor, roughly. "He will go to sleep again. It is one of the finer qualities of my medicine that it sends people to sleep. It is a most soothing medicine. It causes a deep a profound sleep. Wake him up, I say." he went to the cupboard in which the medicines were kept.
The whole tendency of what may be called popular pharmacy during the last few years has been in the direction of introducing to the public a great variety of powerful medicines, put up in convenient forms, and advertised in such a manner as to produce in the unthinking, a belief that they may be safely and rightly administered at all times and seasons, as remedies for some real or supposed malady.
"I really do not see how we can do better," replied Timothy. "The world is all before us, and we must force our own way through it. As for his being a quack doctor, I see no great harm in that. People put their faith in nostrums more than they do in regular medicines; and it is well known that quack medicines, as they call them, cure as often as others, merely for that very reason."
"I do not think so. I am no expert, but I have a vague idea I have seen " He wrinkled his brows and pressed away the furrows with his hand, that physical habit of his when perplexed. "I have it," he cried. "It is antimony." Miss Deane pursed her lips in disdain. Antimony! What was antimony? "So much fuss for nothing," she said. "It is used in alloys and medicines," he explained.
I respect the Gods: I see the cures performed by them, I see their beneficence at work in restoring the sick through the medium of the medical faculty and their drugs. Asclepius, and his sons after him, compounded soothing medicines and healed the sick, without the lion's-skin-and-field-mouse process. 'Never mind Asclepius, cried Ion.
"Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars, its feet for the swords; it continueth, though an army lay waste the pasture; it comforteth when there are no medicines; it hath the relish of manna; and by it do men live in the desert." "But if it pass from a man, that which he loves, and he is left alone, Monsieur?" "That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end."
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