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Excerpt from What Is the Comparative Physiological and Therapeutic Action of Free Phosphorus and the Hypophosphites?: An Assay, to Which the "Merrit H. Cash" Prize Was Awarded by the New York State Medical Society, 1876
I am sorry to say that a great many of the assertions made are entirely theoretical, and no attempts have been made to question these assertions by experimental facts. I am aware that Thompson has related cases of neuralgia, and other diseases that have been relieved by a certain favorite pill of free phosphorus, of which no one knows the composition, and others have asserted that consumption can always be cured by the hypo phosphites. The relation of these cases do not constitute science, nor do they give the slightest knowledge of the modus operandi of the medicine. To settle these various points of controversy, I see no other way than to analyze the observations and the related cases, test each by the known method of scientific research, and, as far as possible, give the exact modus operandi of each remedial agent.
Let me first consider a work lately published in London by J. Ash burton Thompson, Free Phosphorus in Medicine, taking this as an exponent of the first class I have spoken of. This work has had a large circulation, and makes bolder assertions than have ever before been used. How far are they correct?
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