Doctor in Medicine: And Other Papers on Professional SubjectsWood, 1872 - 308 pages |
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... social state , has called into existence a class of shop - keepers who have monopolized the business of compounding and dispensing medicines . It will at once occur to every reflecting reader , that this division of labor is of great ...
... social state , has called into existence a class of shop - keepers who have monopolized the business of compounding and dispensing medicines . It will at once occur to every reflecting reader , that this division of labor is of great ...
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... social and political rank to which they have attained , are well given in the following anecdote by Mr. Mackay , of Edinburgh : " Professor Christison repaired to Paris about thirty - four years ago , to study practically the higher ...
... social and political rank to which they have attained , are well given in the following anecdote by Mr. Mackay , of Edinburgh : " Professor Christison repaired to Paris about thirty - four years ago , to study practically the higher ...
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... Social Science , " England , in 1859 , by M. L. Baines . The evils of wet - nursing are here presented in a two - fold light : 1st , moral and social ; and 2d , physical . The former grow out of the employment of fallen women , a ...
... Social Science , " England , in 1859 , by M. L. Baines . The evils of wet - nursing are here presented in a two - fold light : 1st , moral and social ; and 2d , physical . The former grow out of the employment of fallen women , a ...
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... social , or re- ligious , must be regarded as the most remarka- ble in the history of mankind . For nearly a century , from every civilized , and from many semi - civilized nations , the drift of emigration has been to our shores . The ...
... social , or re- ligious , must be regarded as the most remarka- ble in the history of mankind . For nearly a century , from every civilized , and from many semi - civilized nations , the drift of emigration has been to our shores . The ...
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... social or political , which are due to legitimate medicine . The triumph of the British medical profession in obtaining the enactment of laws designed to establish it upon a firm legal basis , is a striking proof of the power of medical ...
... social or political , which are due to legitimate medicine . The triumph of the British medical profession in obtaining the enactment of laws designed to establish it upon a firm legal basis , is a striking proof of the power of medical ...
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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.