Volume 1

Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould.

  • George M. Gould
Date:
1903-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Biographic clinics / by George M. Gould. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    crude allusions of friends, or of the poor patients as they groan and sigh under the load of their uncom¬ prehended afflictions. Like flashes of lightning of the past storm these reveal for an instant the whole land¬ scape of their time and work and suffering. Such swift visions can only be made scientific through a sys¬ tematic and periodic study of the physiologic and medical tests of patients during their whole lives.1 Clinics should be held on the entire life of the patient, and until this is scientifically possible by a system of biologic and clinical examinations, we must glean our pitiful aftermath from the biographies and letters, etc. The million case-records left by dead physicians are either worthless or lost, as these possibly most precious clinical data are considered of no value. The forelying study of the clinical biographies of five of the greatest geniuses of England concerns but one class of symptoms and one disease-producing factor. Of other diseases and other patients I am not competent to speak. The field will be found untilled and productive by specialists in other departments in medicine. But to the historian and psychologist the role of eyestrain will be especially interesting because xThe outline of the objects and methods of such biologic and pathologic life-studies I have given in an address, en¬ titled, “ A System of Personal Biologic Examinations the Condition of Adequate Medical and Scientific Conduct of Life,” Jour. Am. Med. Assoc., July 21, 1900.
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