“Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.”
The Treatment of Disease Can Lancet 1909;42:899-912, As quoted in The Quotable Osler https://books.google.com/books?id=Vl5iC4qZkrcC&pg=PT152, ACP Press, 2008
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