RT Journal
A1 HUNT R
T1 WHat the individual physician can do to improve the materia medica
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD August 14
VO LIII
IS 7
SP 497
OP 502
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550070001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550070001001
AB The subject of this address is, I believe, one of much importance to the physician, both as an individual and as a member of a learned and dignified profession, but a profession which has allowed itself to be imposed on and permitted even its dignity to be lowered and its usefulness lessened by certain influences both within and without. So much has been said in recent years on the subject of proprietary medicines that I might hesitate to bring it up again if the times did not seem so opportune for constructive work, and work in which the individual physician can and must take the leading part.Before entering on this discussion, however, a few words may be said concerning the place of drug therapeutics in the practice of medicine. The best energies of the profession for almost a generation have been devoted to the discovery of