A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope.
- Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff
- Date:
- 1827
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREFACE. I HAvn endeavoured in the following sheets, by a description of the mode of treatment adopt- ed in the medical school for surgeons, to satisfy, as far as I was able, an often expressed wish, that clinical teachers would give to the public a parti- cular account of their effective practice* This work is the result of observations and discoveries made in this school during the years 1823, and 1824; it details facts with truth and simplicity; as nature presented them in her morbid appear- ances to unprejudiced observation, and without reference to any theoretical system. Medicine is, without doubt, one of the most be- neficial but yet most difficult sciences ; it compre- hends the whole extent of natural knowledge ; its high object is to preserve or restore health, the most inestimable of earthly possessions; the value of which Neubeck thus admirably expresses: “to be without it, is ceasing to live, and yet not dy- ing.” The ])hysician’s office is certainly one of the most difficult in civil life, and the object of his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28740270_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
