It is manufactured with laudanum and sirup of sugar, as if they were the same thing! "We have got so we no longer dose substances but prescribe ready-made remedies and use those surprising specifics which fill up the fourth pages of the journals.

It's a compromise medicine, a democratic medicine, one cure for all cases.

It's scandalous, it's silly.
"No, there is no use in talking.

The old therapeutics based on experience was better than this.

At least it know that remedies ingested in pill, powder, or bolus form were treacherous, so it prescribed them only in the liquid state.