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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    as 0^ as great terminal Ocean of life and health. tlie only Source of all true wisdom and consolation. An acquired habit of this kind (and every practice of which the tendency is undoubtedly good, ought to be fostered and encouraged till it acquire the force of a habit,) will be attended with various beneficial results, even irrespectively of the avowed object of such an act of devotion. The mind will in a moment, e^s en in the midst of the bustle and excitement of every-day life, be subdued info that calm, obser- \ ant, and dispassionate state, which is so valuable and requisite amid the distractions of a sick room. The Christian virtues, many of which, as faith, hope, charity, and resignation, are highly sanatory in their operation, will be called into exercise in the tii st place in the mind of the practitioner, and will then through the force of sympathy be kindled in the breast of the patient; while the opposite and more selfish feelings of ostenta¬ tion or vanity, avarice, rivalry, irritability, rash¬ ness, &c., which often do irreparable mischief in the circumstances referred to, will be kept in subjection. In a mind previously disciplined, a short space of time—even a minute or two, as the piactitioner is entering the house of his patient is quite sufficient to produce the effect desired. And even when in the act of investigating 6
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