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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 — John Shaqi

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

FOOTNOTES:

[1] It will be obvious to the reader that I use this word, wherever
it appears, in its _popular_ sense, and not in its professional one.
I use it as synonymous with quackery.




CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER I.

  UNCERTAINTY OF MEDICINE,                                          25

  Importance of the subject. Definiteness of results in chemistry.
  Only a distant and humble approach to this possible in medicine.
  Illustration from chemistry. CAUSES OF THE UNCERTAINTY OF MEDICINE.
  1. Sympathy between different organs; 2. Symptoms produced at a
  distance from the seat of disease. Disease extended by sympathy.
  Transposition of disease from one organ to another. 2. Influence of
  unseen or secret causes. Nature of many causes of disease unknown.
  Combination of many agencies in producing disease, some of them
  having acted a long time. Cases rendered complex by treatment
  before physician is applied to. 3. Natural changes in the system
  arising from the curative power of nature, and from the principle of
  self-limitation in diseases. Illustrations of the operation of the
  _vis medicatrix naturæ_—vomiting to remove offending matters from
  the stomach—suppuration and discharge of a swelling. Tendency of
  diseases to come to a conclusion—more definite and regular in some
  complaints than in others. Mistakes from confounding the effects of
  remedies with the changes produced by these two tendencies. 4. Mental
  influences. Connection of mind with body modifying disease. Effects
  produced through the mind often attributed to physical causes and
  remedies. Case of the dyspeptic. 5. Individual peculiarities.


  CHAPTER II.

  SKILL IN MEDICINE,                                                50

  Show in what medical skill consists, in view of the uncertainty of
  medicine—_appreciating the condition of the patient in all respects,
  and applying remedies in the best manner to relieve this condition_.
  Errors impairing skill. Taking limited views of disease. Directing
  attention too much to particular organs. Undue attachment to certain
  modes of investigation. Difficulties in the way of deciding what
  it is best to do. Course of different physicians in view of these
  difficulties. Accurate proportioning of means and ends. Value of
  experience. Illustration of some of these points in the case of a
  sick traveller assisted by his friend in going through a mountain
  pass.


  CHAPTER III.

  POPULAR ERRORS,                                                   63

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