Excerpt from The Laws of Therapeutics, or the Science and Art of Medicine Medicine is yet to a great extent a mere collection of facts and of opinions which vary from year to year according to the theories Of the most prominent men. Thus, the practice Of physicians thirty years ago is at present regarded as worse than useless; whereas, had law governed their practice, all truth in that practice would have remained as the inheritance of science, and available for their successors: truth can never perish. Nothing can be more repugnant to an ordinary mind than the thorough sifting of deepseated, long-familiar teed notions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.