The Eclectic Medical Gleaner Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...you are a misnomer, for to judge by the size to which you have lately grown, one would be inclined to think that you are harvesting instead of gleaning, but I know that you are modest, as are all "great heads." Your character ot multum in parvo reminds me of what wise king Solomon said in his book called Ecclesiastes: "There is no end to making of books, but the multiplying of words causes sickness of the heart." Right, you are, oh wise king Now, brother Gleaner, let me tell you that Solomon was an eclectic, for the word, Koholeth, the name of that book in the original, means ecletisims--not churches, or assemblies, which the word Ecclesiastes might signify. Now permit me to tell you the book contains more wisdom to the square inch than any book of old or modern days, for it is eclectic, made up of short, sharp sayings, all to the point, and thoroughly practical. No bacteriology, nor germicidisms in it, and it calls a spade a spade. Your articles, brother Gleaner, are of the same nature and should open the hearts and the pockets to the merits of your pages, so that you could harvest dollars instead of gleaning quarters. Only one more thing I wish to say and then I will stop, lest you think I multiply words and cause heartache. That is, "I wish that the good Lord would cause a rainbow to appear, as he did in the days ot old Noah. It would stop the flood of medical literature of the day which threatens to deluge the profession with its wild, though slushy and dish-watery waves. Alas I'll quit. Yours, --J. A. Jeancon, M. D. Dr. M. L. Thomas, whose success as an eclectic physician attracted the late Prof. Scudder to medicine, is still in active practice at Harrison, O. The Gleaner thanks him tor kind appreciations. Dr. E. Davis, of Bea...