The management of a nerve patient / By Alfred T. Schofield.

  • Alfred Taylor Schofield
Date:
1906
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Credit: The management of a nerve patient / By Alfred T. Schofield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ritual accompanying their use, were not the subjects of countless discussions and papers. Apart from all this, and even if it could be entirely hidden from the public gaze, the wonderful results themselves, so common now, though half a century ago rightly deemed impossible, would suffice to herald the advance of surgery everywhere. Advamein In medicine it is well known advances have medicine. been made, and new drugs either discovered or produced synthetically to order as required (in Germany). The visible world (of man) has been clearly shown to be dependent for its health on the action or inaction of the invisible world (of micro- organisms) in a way also totally unsuspected fifty years ago. This advance in medicine is as notorious as the antiseptic revolution in surgery, and so far the one may fairly be taken to balance the other. But were there nothing more, my opening statement would not be justified. The movement to which I allude that is changing the practice of medicine completely, is the result of irresistible pressure ; and, though still strenuously resisted by the conservative members of our profession in their practice and writings, is increasing in its growth and gradual progress.
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