Doctor and patient / by S. Weir Mitchell.

  • Silas Weir Mitchell
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Doctor and patient / by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PHYSICIAN. IHA YE long had in mind to write from a physician's point of view something in regard to the way in which the well-trained man of my profession does his work. My inclination to justify the labors and sentiments of an often misunderstood body of men was lately reinforced by remarks made to me by a very intelligent patient. I found him, when I entered my room, standing before an admirable copy of the famous portrait of the great William Harvey, the original of which is in the Royal College of Physicians. After asking of whom it was a likeness, he said, I should be a little curious to know how he would have treated my case. I had to confess that of Harvey's modes of practice we know little, but I took down from a shelf those odd and most interesting let- ters of Howell's, clerk of council to James I.,
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