“It is worse than useless to give a second dose until the effects of the first dose have ceased.”
“Never, under any circumstances, make use of local applications for an internal derangement. It is the highest order of medical profanity!”
“A Sycotic is never cured unless a discharge is brought back”.
“When a remedy has benefited a patient satisfactorily, never on your life, change your remedy, but repeat that remedy so long as you can benefit the patient. Do not regard the symptoms that have come up.”
(Dr. James Tyler Kent – Kent’s Aphorisms and Precepts from extemporaneous lectures)
