Health Related

A doctor relates the curious and seldom mentioned topics that he's experienced in his medical practice.

If I, therefore, would preserve my method for present and future times, and not die stigmatized as a "quack", I am under the necessity of exhibiting, proving and communicating to others the truths I have discovered, by dint of instruction, and demonstrations on living subjects. To such a large company, however, the presentation of diseased persons is impossible, and I must therefore content myself with explaining my views in words to the best of my ability. And first, let me show briefly what led to the formulation of my Method.

Medicines and remedies used by our grandparents -- recipes and concoctions revealed.

Here are the recipes used by apothecaries for many of the medicines used by our grandparents and great grandparents.

It is well known, that maniacs often suppose they have seen, and heard those things, which really did not exist at the time; but even this I should not explain by any disability, or error of the perception, since it is by no means the province of the perception to represent unreal existences to the mind. It must therefore be sought elsewhere, probably in the senses, or in the imagination.

Under the term Old-Time Medicine most people probably think at once of Greek medicine, since that developed in what we have called ancient history, and is farthest away from us in date. As a matter of fact, however, much more is known about Greek medical writers than those of any other period except the last century or two.

It is hoped that the present volume will supply a want that is really felt by students of philosophy in our universities-the want of an English text-book on General Metaphysics from the Scholastic standpoint. It is the author's intention to supplement his Science of Logic1 and the present treatise on Ontology, by a volume on the Theory of Knowledge. Hence no disquisitions on the latter subject will be found in these pages: the Moderate Realism of Aristotle and the Schoolmen is assumed throughout.