Doctor and Patient _Papers on the Relationship of the Physician to Men and Institutions_ BY FRANCIS WELD PEABODY, M.D. _Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory; Visiting Physician and Chief of the Fourth Medical Service, Boston City Hospital 1921 to 1927_ NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1930 Copyright, 1930, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved--no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. Set up and printed. Published June, 1930. SET UP BY BROWN BROTHERS LINOTYPERS PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY Three of the papers in the collection have already appeared in print; “The Care of the Patient” is reprinted by permission from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 88, pages 877 to 882, and The Harvard University Press. “The Physician and the Laboratory” is reprinted by permission from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (now The New England Journal of Medicine), Volume 187, Number 9. An expression of appreciation is also due the Journal of the American Medical Association for permission to reprint “The Soul of the Clinic,” which appeared in Volume 90. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction by Hans Zinsser, M.D. ix The Public and the General Practitioner 1 The Care of the Patient 27 The Physician and the Laboratory 58 The Soul of the Clinic 72 INTRODUCTION TO COLLECTED PAPERS OF FRANCIS W. PEABODY