They are proving by the most brilliant new results that the therapeutic relation may be what we can at present describe only as a relation of one person to another person; and they are consistent in resisting to the uttermost any legislation that would make 'examinable' information the root of medical virtue, and hamper the free play of personal force and affinity by mechanically imposed conditions.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Here is a purely medical question, regarding which our General Court, not being a well-spring and source of medical virtue, not having any private test of therapeutic truth, must remain strictly neutral under penalty of making the confusion worse....
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Commonly they contain little else than ordinary salt, the other substances being in such small quantity that their therapeutic effect is practically negligible.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler