Note 108 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.
Reading edition
“A popular hypothesis is now very prevalent, which attributes nearly all Diseases to a disturbed state of the Liver—for which, Mercurial drugs are lavished almost indiscriminately. The folly of expecting to repel this, or any other opinion which is favourable to the natural indolence of mankind, is obvious, especially when it is at the same time upholden by the empirical interests of greedy individuals.”—A. Carlisle on Old Age, 2d edit. p. 88.