Lectures on clinical medicine / [John Hughes Bennett].

  • Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.
Date:
1850-1856]
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Credit: Lectures on clinical medicine / [John Hughes Bennett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will still experience considerable difficulty in the diagnosis of skin affections. This can only be removed by practical experience at the bed-side, and by con¬ stantly exercising your powers of observation in detecting the essential elements which their varied forms present. At the same time, I think the modified classification and short characters I have given, will materially assist your studies in this important department of practical medicine. It must be remembered, however, that they only refer to those cutaneous diseases which you are liable to meet with in this country. Should jmu ever be called upon to | practise in the tropics, or in other places where peculiar skin disorders prevail, it will, of course, be your duty to study them in an especial manner. Here, as they cannot be made the subject of clinical observation, they are altogether removed from our consideration.