Outlines of medical treatment / by Samuel Fenwick and W. Soltau Fenwick.

  • Samuel Fenwick
Date:
1891
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Credit: Outlines of medical treatment / by Samuel Fenwick and W. Soltau Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OUTLINES OF MEDICAL TREATMENT. CHAPTER I. ON THE GENERAL TREATMENT OE DISEASE. The treatment of a disease is much more difficult than its diagnosis. In diagnosis you have, for the most part, only to discover what is the state of the organ affected, and by attention to the symptoms and physical signs you may generally arrive at a correct conclusion. But you have to take into consideration the age, sex, condition, and the previous state of the health of the patient, and also whether other maladies coexist, before you can determine on your line of treatment. Again, diseases vary greatly in severity at different times; and even in the same dis- ease what may be useful at one period may be positively injurious at another. You will, therefore, understand that close and accurate observation is essential to the for- mation of a good practitioner, and that no amount of reading, however valuable this may be, can compensate for a want of clinical exj^erieuce. Most students commence their career with very erro- neous ideas respecting the aim of therapeutics. They imagine that there are particular drugs that have power over certain diseases, and that it is only necessary to discover the complaint, and then a medicine proper for it may be
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