There are no specifics in warfare.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
They had no faith in specifics and nostrums in the cure of insanity, but medical treatment was by no means despised, while a warm bath was found to be "of greater importance and efficacy, in most cases of melancholia, than all the other medical means which have been employed."
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke
It must be frankly granted that Psychological Medicine can boast, as yet, of no specifics, nor is it likely, perhaps, that such a boast will ever be made.
"Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles"
Daniel Hack Tuke