Laxatives, intestinal antiseptics, and bowel irrigations have almost taken the place of opiates in the treatment of these conditions in modern medicine.
This much we feel sure of, and it is one of the keynotes of the attitude of modern medicine, that a large majority of the symptoms of disease are really nature's attempts to cure it.
One of the fathers of modern medicine asked on his death-bed, thirty years ago, that his epitaph should be, "He fed fevers.
Cusanus was probably not more than thirty when he made the suggestion which represents the first practical hint for the use of laboratory methods in modern medicine.
Iodiphos is another instance when a decadent polypharmacy proposes haphazard medication and so obstructs the efforts of modern medicine to establish the use of single drugs to meet definite indications.
And this is the gentleman who claims to have discovered the cause of, and offers for sale a cure for, one of the most baffling scourges known to modern medicine--cancer.
The complexity of modern medicine, especially in the pharmacologic field, has made it a physical impossibility for physicians to know the scientific status of scores of pharmaceutical products put out under proprietary or brand names.
Il Morgagni (Italy): "Professor Walsh narrates important lives in modern medicine with an easy style that makes his book delightful reading.
Footnote 46: See my sketch of his life in Makers of Modern Medicine.
I have shown this amply even with regard to what is usually considered so unorthodox a science as medicine, in my volume on the Makers of Modern Medicine.
There can be no doubt that a very large part of Greek practice was on this level, as is a small part of modern medicine, but it is not a level with which we are here dealing and we shall therefore pass it by.
But the recovered Greek medical writings also contained some material of the purest and most scientific type, and that material and the spirit in which it was written, form the debt of modern medicine to antiquity.
Celsus is still commemorated in modern medicine by the area Celsi, a not uncommon disease of the skin.
Modern medicine may be truly described as in essence a creation of the Greeks.
It would be interesting in view of the present stage of Egyptological research to determine the exact character of the mummy which was thus destined to play so important a part in the history of modern medicine.
The Rise and Development of Modern Medicine Chapter VI.
I am especially troubled by a consciousness of the imperfection of modern medicine.
William Harvey, the great Englishman who founded modern experimental physiology and was the first to establish not only the fact of the circulation but also the physical laws governing it, is commonly reckoned the Father of Modern Medicine.
In the footnotes, also, attention is drawn to words which are of particular philological interest from the point of view of modern medicine.
Modern medicine, based upon a painstaking research into the details of physiological function, had begun.
Cure of sickness and alleviation of suffering must never be neglected; not in cure, however, but in prevention lies the hope of modern sanitary science, of modern medicine, and of modern nursing.
He cannot cope with the complexity of modern medicine; he has no authority to enforce its hygiene.
These two fundamental tendencies of modern medicine--greater complexity of its methods and the predominantly preventive character of its aims--alone suffice to render the position of the private practitioner untenable.
In the second place, the whole direction of modern medicine is being changed and to an end away from private practice; our thoughts are not now mainly bent on the cure of disease but on its prevention.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern medicine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
