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Are fixed formulas of drugs necessary or desirable in the treatment of disease? When the animal organism is injured by disease or traumatism there is an inherent tendency to self-repair. Usually this repair by Nature is toward complete restoration of the function of the organism. Occasionally the repair is vicious and harmful to the further normal use of the body. The physician's duty is to stand by and allow Nature to complete her work if the tendency is toward cure, to guide her if erratic, to correct her if vicious. OUR KNOWLEDGE OF DRUG ACTION. In so far as drugs are employed in thus aiding Nature, it must be remembered that, even with our properly boasted advance of knowledge, we are woefully ignorant of many of Nature's methods, and know little accurately of the effects of chemicals and drugs on these methods. We know practically nothing of the effects of |
