Some remarks on clinical lectures : being the substance of an introductory lecture delivered at Guy's Hospital, on the 27th January 1818 / by Alexander Marcet.

  • Marcet, Alexander Gaspard, 1770-1822.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Some remarks on clinical lectures : being the substance of an introductory lecture delivered at Guy's Hospital, on the 27th January 1818 / by Alexander Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tients, it will be found more than sufficient for our purpose. The wards contain only twenty-four beds; but you will find it hardly possible to follow so many cases with Clinical minuteness. Sufficient variety is no doubt requisite; but it should not be so great as to prevent that degree of attention to individual cases, which this mode of instruc- tion essentially requires. I am ready to admit however, generally speaking, that, the larger an hospital is, and the more numerous the patients, the greater chance there is of increasing our store of knowledge. But the case is different as to Clinical Lec- tures. Here, I repeat it, we want a selection; we want diseases in their simplest and best charac- terised form; we want as much as possible to abstract from adventitious circumstances. In one word, we want to see illustrations of the laws of pathological science, before we perplex ourselves with the exceptions to these laws; thus leaving the study of the most complex cases, and the ana- lysis of nice shades of disease, for the last periods of our medical education*. * It has been customary for the physicians of Guy's Hospital to allow the Clinical lecturer to transfer to the Clinical wards, any
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