Guide to the clinical examination and treatment of sick children / by John Thomson.

Date:
1898
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Credit: Guide to the clinical examination and treatment of sick children / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    to present great difficulties at first, but when these have been surmounted, he finds their ailments at least as easy of diagnosis and treatment, as those of his other patients. To be successful in practice among children, certain qualifications are absolutely necessary to the physician. Firstly, he must, of course, possess a thorough grasp of the ordinary clinical methods. Secondly, a certain amount of tact is necessary to enable him to examine the patient without arousing active opposition. Many have this tact instinctively; some only acquire it in the requisite degree with time and experience; while to those who have no liking for children, and are out of sympathy with them, it may never come at all. Lastly, he must make himself familiar with the chief anatomical and physiological peculiarities of childhood, so as to know what is and what is not within the normal limits; and he must have some knowledge of the nature and causes of the diseases commonest among children. In the following pages, an attempt is made to supply this necessary information, and to indicate its relation to clinical work, in the hope of arousing some of that interest which, as Dr Moxon said, “neutralises difficulties as alkalies neutralise acids.”
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