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John Bartlett
(18201905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
1919.
NUMBER:
6966
AUTHOR:
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(18091894)
QUOTATION:
I firmly believe that if the whole
materia medica
could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
ATTRIBUTION:
Lecture, Harvard Medical School.
1
Note 1.
Bishop William Crosswell Doane (18321913):
Lines on Homeopathy.
Stir the mixture well
Lest it prove inferior,
Then put half a drop
Into Lake Superior.
Every other day
Take a drop in water,
You ll be better soon
Or at least you oughter. [
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