Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    MEMQRI for a siggl fact not contand in doz nots! Purliaps dar iz hardli eni medical hue hwiq iz so Strjcir) an egzampl ov de advantejiz ov cas- tacig, az Dr. Ileburdenz Comenteriz. But it wiad be imposibl for de bizi jenural practijunur tux tac casiz aftur da manur ov Dr. Heburden. R mor rapid mod ov descrjbig most casiz must be invented, bafor cas-tacig wil cum tui ba sariusli considurd bj medical practijunurz. R braf metud ov rjtig iz neseseri. i* 1 no nun so gild az Mr. Pitmanz “Fqnografi,” hwiq iz a veri braf, lcjibl, and filozoficcd sistem ov Jorthand* Ro, bj inventig tablz ov abreviajunz, suq az doz | hav abided tui bafor, dar wiad ba meni facts convad bj a fu strocs ov da pen, stil it wil ofn be fond neseseri, in racordig da historiz ov casiz, tui uz a grat meni wurdz hwiq canot be ecs- prest bj sue; leturz. In rjtig sue; historiz, and particiilurli in filig up “ de tablz ov de nolej ov constitujunz,” Fonogrcifi wil be fond ov da gratest vain tui de practijunur, bj razn ov its breviti, and da rapiditi wid hwiq it can be ritn. R grat recomendajun ov de ns ov Jort hand iz, dat if de nots Jnd bj eni acsident be lost, cuid fel intui de handz ov stranjurz, it wiad ba imposibl for eni wun, ecsept a mediccd man lira unduxstandz Ponografi, tui desjfur deni. In ordur tra prevent avn anudur medical man macig ns ov dem, and in ordur tra obviat de posibiliti ov da particnlurz ov eni pa- Jents cas beig dus mad non, dar et tra ba no namz, but numburz piat tra da cas: dez numburz corespondig tra a list ov namz undur loc and ca at hom. Bj dis menz, an objeejun hwiq mjt be started tra cas-tacig, az baig ljcli tra led tra disclognrz ov secrets, iz entjrli obviated. Ponografi iz ecs- adigli wurdi ov da atenjun ov vug mediccd men, cuid ov medical stndents; and de memburz ov de Ponografic Corespondig Sosjeti, bj recomendig it tui dem, ma not onli be ov grat survis in furdurig de grat cez ov Litureri Baform, but in advansig da art ov medisin, bj piatig intiu de handz ov med- ical men an instrument hwiq wil be ov grat vain tra dem in racordig casiz. It iz probabl dat dis pamflet wil fel intui de handz ov meni Ponografurz, hot at hom and abrecl. Sum wil fel unwilig tra rise de los ov dar copiz ov it, becez dez copiz wil pozes cm inturest and vain in dar jz, indapendentli ov de subject matur, namli, az beig de furst buic printed in Ponotipi sins de final setlment ov de alfabet. Stil, i hop dat da wil not hezitat tra put it intui de hcindz ov medical stndents, and ov de medical atendants ov dar familiz. If its contents dm not convins dem ov de nesesiti ov cas-tacig, and ov de advantejiz ov Ponografi, stil it wil hav survd de purpus ov * 3is pamflet woz sent tiu Beit ritn in Ponografi, and evuri wurd ov de manuscript woz coreclli red bj de compoziturz. If j had ritn it in lor) hand j dst veri mug liwedur 1 Jud hav resevd pruifs so aciirct.