CURE Quote
Specific diseases are as much known from their cure as from their particular mode of action, for they are cured by a specific medicine. Specific disease is either universal, as fever, or local, as scrofula ; others are mixed, as agues, rheumatism, &c., and these admit of cure from a variety of medicines.
— Parkinson, J. W. K, Hunterian reminiscences; being the substance of a course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery, delivered by … J. Hunter, in the year 1785Archives
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Do you need a medicine, or a healthicine?
Healthicines increase healthiness. Medicines decrease illness. It’s easy to say, but it can be very difficult to understand clearly. Are “alternative medicines” healthicines or medicines? Are vitamins healthicines, or medicines? Are herbal medicines healthicines or medicines. Let’s begin with some simple … Continue reading
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