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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![c: xvi;] with respect to their treatment, a two-fold and very material distinction; some can only be favour- ably terminated by the powers of nature, and the body is thus restored to health. In others, nature yields in the conflict, or would by herself only produce an unfavourable issue. In the former, the object of treatment consists in not interrupt- ing her course, but in keeping it as regular as possible; a quiet observant practice must here be employed, which uses mild remedies adapted to the case, removes impediments, and exactly assigns the diet and regimen. But when the disease is not able of itself to finish desirably its course, then a more or less powerful interference of our art in the progress of the disease takes place. It would be unpardonable to act the mere observer where an urgent indication requires our interference; and it is the great problem of practical medicine to know in what cases nature is to be left to her- self, and where she is to be assisted by art, and the manner of doing it. According to the determined indication, the appropriate remedies are adjusted as accurately as may be to the patient’s constitution; they are ordered with all possible simplicity, and the diet is assigned with the greatest care. All that in this short review has been set down respecting the patient, is now put down by the ordinary in writing, and in the same order, with truth and clearness, and read out publicly on the following](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28740270_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
