Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser].

  • Fraser, William, -1888.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Queries in medical ethics / [William Fraser]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    very request, however, argues a want of confi¬ dence, which will only be encouraged by compli¬ ance : so that in general (being guided by his own judgment as to the cases that should be made exceptions to the rule.) he should be firm in his refusal to tell what he is giving; saying^ for example, if urged on the subject, “ It is some¬ thing that will do you good; take it now, and if you are anxious about it afterwards, I can tell you what it is.” iii. In certain complaints, more particularly those of a nervous and hypochondriacal character, caution should be observed with respect to what exposition is given to the patient of his disease and its treatment. When treating of Epilepsy, Dr. Copland in his “ Dictionary of Practical Me¬ dicine” makes the following excellent remarks on the subject, the force and propriety of which must strike every practitioner of the most ordi¬ nary experience. After having analyzed the case, and carefully disentangled the essential from the adventitious and accidental features of it, and so referred it to the class to which it belongs, he says:—“The physician should calmly and decidedly direct the means of cure with reference to the disposition, the feelings, the weaknesses, and the irresolution of the pa¬ tient; and in a manner calculated to gain his
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