Medical diagnosis / by Samuel Fenwick.

  • Samuel Fenwick
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical diagnosis / by Samuel Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following pages were originally designed to assist the students attending the medical out-patient department of the London Hospital. The plan of instruction generally pursued there is to give to each pupil a succession of cases of a similar character. In this way, whilst one is practising the laryngoscope, another is studying auscultation, a third affections of the nervous system, and so on. After examining a case, the student is expected to state his diagnosis, and the treatment he would adopt. Although this method of individual instruction is doubtless more beneficial than the practice of teaching in classes, yet it necessarily involves a constant repetition on the part of the teacher. To obviate the loss of time thus incurred, I commenced to write out some general rules for diagnosis, which the student might keep beside him as a guide in his examina- tions. It was afterwards suggested to me to elaborate the idea, and hence the appearance of the present volume. As the pupils have been supposed not to have yet acquired any professional knowledge, except in