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Thomas Graham
(21 Dec 1805 - 16 Sep 1869)
Scottish physical chemist.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Graham (2 quotes)
[Mercurial medicines] affect the human constitution in a peculiar manner, taking, so to speak, an iron grasp of all its systems, and penetrating even to the bones, by which they not only change the healthy action of its vessels, and general structure, but greatly impair and destroy its energies; so that their abuse is rarely overcome. When the tone of the stomach, intestines, or nervous system generally, has been once injured by this mineral ... it could seldom be restored.
— Thomas Graham
Quoted in Wooster Beach, A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health (1848), 177.
A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.
Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.
Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.
— Thomas Graham
Quoted in Wooster Beach, A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Health (1848), 177.
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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