Abstract
While the writer desires to be enrolled among the conservatives in the midst of the present enthusiasm regarding the newer materia medica; that is, among those who insist upon rational evidence and clinical proof to a critical degree before a verdict in favor of some new chemical compound is added to the certainties of our therapeutic knowledge; yet it seems to him that in one direction at least there is too much leaning upon the old standards. While our knowlof pathology and physiologic action has long since passed the point of the treatment of symptoms, yet we still cling to one drug which does most of its work in relieving symptoms only. Of course a drug which has the dynamic energy of opium must always be an equally potent power for therapeutic good; but it is not what can be legitimately done with opium, but what is actually done that
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