The Eclectic Practice of Medicine

In 1906, Dr. Rolla Thomas completely revised the 1866 teaching manual by John Milton Scudder, and revised it yet again in 1907. This was the culmination of a thirty-year frenzy of published creativity at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was the main teaching text at that school until the1930s...the college closed in 1939.

The Eclectics were the most sophisticated of all the Medical Reform Sects that arose from the mid-1800s, lasted the longest and published the best books. This is a physician's manual. Many potentially fatal disorders harried our foreparents, many barely treatable by ANY physician, including the Eclectics...many are now merely footnotes, so capable is current medicine and public health. Yet, underneath it all is the basic tenant, still important and applicable, that HOW a person gets sick is at least equal to WHAT the name of the disease is. In this realm, much of this book is still useful, even subversive.

"...it were better for the doctor if he can forget that his patient has typhoid fever, pneumonia, dysentery, or whatever he may have, and study the conditions that are present. This may be wrongs of the circulation, of the nervous system, of the secretions, of digestion, of assimilation, or wrongs of the blood, but whatever the basal lesion, it must be overcome if the patient is to be benefited by medication." - Introduction

PART I - INFECTIOUS DISEASES, section 1
PART I - INFECTIOUS DISEASES, section 2
PART II - DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM -
PART III - DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
PART IV - DISEASE OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM,
PART IV - DISEASE OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM,
PART V - DISEASES OF THE URINARY TRACT -.
PART VI - CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES
PART VII - DISEASES OF THE BLOOD AND THE DUCTLESS GLANDS
PART VIII - DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
PART IX-XI, MISCELLANEOUS
DISEASES OF THE MUSCLES.
THE INTOXICATIONS; SUNSTROKE; OBESITY.
ANIMAL PARASITES.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
IMPORTANT INCOMPATIBLES.
POISONS AND ANTIDOTES.
INDICATIONS FOR REMEDIES.

INDICATIONS FOR REMEDIES. a handy materia medica from the end of the manual

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