Doctor in Medicine: And Other Papers on Professional SubjectsWood, 1872 - 308 pages |
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... branches of chem- istry . His adviser there , the late eminent physiologist , Dr. Edwards , recommended , to his surprise and amazement , that he should place himself under the tuition of a Chemist and Druggist . The Professor's ...
... branches of chem- istry . His adviser there , the late eminent physiologist , Dr. Edwards , recommended , to his surprise and amazement , that he should place himself under the tuition of a Chemist and Druggist . The Professor's ...
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... branch of medicine in these countries . In Great Britain , the apothecary is still the medical practitioner to the masses , and as a consequence the status of pharmacy is very low , and affords the most striking contrast to that of the ...
... branch of medicine in these countries . In Great Britain , the apothecary is still the medical practitioner to the masses , and as a consequence the status of pharmacy is very low , and affords the most striking contrast to that of the ...
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... branches of his business . Too often he has neither an academic nor pharmaceutical education , but enters upon his business , after an apprenticeship more brief and less thorough than that of the ordinary mer- chant's clerk . It is not ...
... branches of his business . Too often he has neither an academic nor pharmaceutical education , but enters upon his business , after an apprenticeship more brief and less thorough than that of the ordinary mer- chant's clerk . It is not ...
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... branches , no useful pur- pose would be gained . They are organized in the interest of a few persons who have no regard for the true welfare of the student ; their aims are low , and the student begins his studies at a dis- advantage ...
... branches , no useful pur- pose would be gained . They are organized in the interest of a few persons who have no regard for the true welfare of the student ; their aims are low , and the student begins his studies at a dis- advantage ...
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... branches of medi- cal service which will open inviting fields of labor to those women who are attracted to the study of medicine . It is idle to resist the progress of public opinion toward the largest liberty in the education of women ...
... branches of medi- cal service which will open inviting fields of labor to those women who are attracted to the study of medicine . It is idle to resist the progress of public opinion toward the largest liberty in the education of women ...
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Page 218 - ... caprices of the sick. Secrecy and delicacy, when required by peculiar circumstances, should be strictly observed; and the familiar and confidential intercourse to which physicians are admitted in their professional visits, should be used with discretion, and with the most scrupulous regard to fidelity and honor.
Page 220 - No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon: Prnrldcd, however.
Page 217 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it, I see or hear in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 298 - Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages : a natural disposition; instruction; a favorable position for the study; early tuition ; love of labor ; leisure.
Page 298 - ... through the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund to those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and audacity. For timidity betrays a want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Page 256 - That he possesses that reasonable degree of learning, skill and experience which is ordinarily possessed by the...
Page 297 - MEDICINE is of all the arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts.
Page 298 - Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of the earth. For our natural disposition is, as it were, the soil; the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in youth is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper season; the place where the instruction is communicated is like the food imparted to vegetables by the atmosphere; diligent study is like the cultivation of the fields; and it is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them...
Page 218 - If a surgeon was voluntarily to reveal these secrets, to be sure he would be guilty of a breach of honour, and of great indiscretion; but to give that information in a court of justice, which by the law of the land he is bound to do, will never be imputed to him as any indiscretion whatever.
Page 298 - ... which are to be seen, touched, and heard; which are to be perceived in the sight, and the touch, and the hearing, and the nose, and the tongue, and the understanding; which are to be known by all the means we know other things.