On cough: its causes, varieties, and treatment : with some practical remarks on the use of the stethoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by Robert Hunter Semple.

  • Robert Hunter Semple
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1858
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Credit: On cough: its causes, varieties, and treatment : with some practical remarks on the use of the stethoscope as an aid to diagnosis / by Robert Hunter Semple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have availed myself, to the utmost of my power, of 11n- written and oral precepts of modern physicians) the remarks I have made have been verified or corrected by my own experience, gained first in the London schools of medicine, then in the wards of the Hospital of La Charite in Paris, and afterwards in a tolerably extensive public and private practice. I have laid down for myself the rules which I would prescribe to my younger professional brethren, viz. to study diligently the works of the best medical writers, but to study still more diligently the great book of Nature: to explore with all possible accuracy the symp- toms of disease; and to learn, by the lessons of experience, the best way of treating it. Above all, I would recommend the adoption of the plan I have always followed, of comparing the physical phenomena of disease, and its diagnosis, during life, with the appear- ances observed after death. By the constant habit of instituting this comparison, the condition of internal organs becomes almost as perceptible to the mental vision, as the appearance of external objects is to the corporeal; and the practice of medicine is no longer a struggle in the dark with unseen foes, but an open encounter witb well-known antagonists. The following pages, therefore, must be considered not as a mere compilation from the works of others, although I cheerfully acknowledge the assistance I have derived from medical reading ; but a record of my own experience, as far as it has gone, and an expression of my own opinions upon the subjects introduced. 8, ToKRINGTON SQUARE, LONDON. v
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