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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the communityHooker, Worthington

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Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community

Name: Physician and patient : $b or, a practical view of the mutual duties, relations and interests of the medical profession and the community
Author: Hooker, Worthington

Hooker, Worthington

Medical ethics; Physician and patient; Physicians; Quacks and quackery

physician should say in regard to results.


  CHAPTER IX.

  THEORY AND OBSERVATION,                                          200

  All real knowledge based upon observation, not on theory. Facts
  of two kinds—individual and general. General facts ascertained
  by observation of many individual or particular facts. No theory
  founded on facts—always goes beyond them. No science in which there
  has been so much theorizing as in medicine. History of medicine
  very much a history of theories. Office of theory—_suggestive_.
  Abuse of theory in failing to distinguish between the known and the
  supposed. Newton’s carefulness on this point. Circumstances impairing
  skill in observation. Mode of reviewing cases. Disposition to form
  conclusions from a limited range of facts. Young practitioners.
  Dr. Sewall’s plates. Dr. Sutton’s treatment of delirium tremens.
  Different theories of fever—Boerhaave, Cullen, Clutterbuck,
  Broussais, Cooke, Samuel Thompson. Hobby-riding. Diseases of
  the throat and windpipe. Habit of making loose and exaggerated
  statements. Credulity and fondness for novelty and change. Changeable
  state of medicine. No standard _authorities_ as in law and theology.
  Scepticism in medicine. _Easy to theorize—difficult to observe well._
  Value of good habits of observation. Medical men had too much to do
  with theories and modes and systems. Eclecticism. _Modus operandi_
  of medicines. A reform in progress in medicine. Breaking loose from
  theory. Promoting rigid observation.


  CHAPTER X.

  POPULAR ESTIMATES OF PHYSICIANS,                                 222

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