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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

Inadequate views of this influence prevalent. Importance of
  understanding it. Connection of mind and body. No proof that mind
  is essentially indestructible. Manifestations of mind connected
  with and dependent upon the material organization. Brain in some
  sense seat of mind—central organ of the nervous system, with which
  mind is connected. Other subordinate nervous centres. Bichat’s idea
  of the seat of the moral sentiments. Weakness of mind in sickness.
  Slight causes affect it strongly. Importance of quiet in sick
  room. Difficult to secure it. Visitors. Conversation. Children as
  easily disturbed as adults. Holding up physician as a bugbear to
  them. Exciting the mind commonly irritates bodily disease, whether
  in the brain, or in some other organ. Death of Hunter caused by a
  fit of passion. Duty of physician sometimes to excite the mind in
  various ways and degrees. Influence of imagination upon the body.
  Use to be made of mental _association_ in the treatment of disease.
  _Diversion_ of the mind. Influence of change of scene on the invalid.
  Monotony of sick room. Settled gloom with which the sick sometimes
  afflicted. How removed. Want of tact in managing whims of the sick.
  Notional dislikes. Fretfulness and impatience. Deranged sensations
  erroneously supposed to be mere imaginations. Importance of a
  faithful study of mental influences to the physician.


  CHAPTER XV.

  INSANITY,                                                        320

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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

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