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Show The monumental error of tho ages in the use of drugs has been, at least until within the bust century, that no one has taken any pains to learn by experiment what effects a cortain drug would have upon the healthy human system before administering it to a sick person. This simple proposition so simple that a school-boy ought to see tho logic of it has been ignored in the, progress of medicine. Here and there one down through the centuries has had the moral courage to test drugs on himself or his disciples before using them upon the sick. ' |