A Textbook Of Clinical Medicine V 1 1903

Author : Clarence Bartlett
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ISBN 13 : 9781330676684
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book A Textbook of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 1 written by Clarence Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A d104book of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 1: Treatment The ultimate object of medicine is successful treatment. Let diagnosis and pathology advance to any extent, and it avails us nothing aside from its scientific interest, if it does not aid us in the prophylaxis and cure of disease. Fortunately for humanity, pathology and diagnosis have done much to rob disease of its terrors; still there remains much to be done before the medical world will reach its highest standard of efficiency. Of late years the advances in surgery have so overshadowed those of medical treatment that the latter have apparently escaped the attention they deserve. So it is that young men and many experienced practitioners have aspired to surgery and the various specialties to the neglect of internal medicine. This we hold is a serious error, for unless general medicine and therapeutics retain their prominent place at the head of the healing art, the specialties and surgery will suffer thereby. It is customary for certain medical scientists to decry the value of therapeutics. What can be more unreasonable? Even in incurable cases it is the rule and not the exception that we give our patients comfort and relief and prolong life, while "an expectant course" would have been attended by suffering and misery. But patients will die; indeed, death is the ultimate end of all living things. In fighting the Grim Reaper we are engaged in unequal combat, for however successful we may be the many times, there will always come the once with ever patient when we fail utterly; and it is that once which makes us feel our helplessness. In thus falling into despondency, we are doing medicine and ourselves an injustice. We should take credit for what we do, and blame neither ourselves nor others for our inability to attain the impossible. When this work was planned, it was with the idea of making its therapeutic basis hom opathic, and this idea has been kept in mind from cover to cover. While the hom opathic application of drugs is unquestionably the best in its results, we must bear in mind that medicines may be required for their palliative or mechanical effects, and this fact has likewise been kept in mind by the author. Physicians must know the palliative and physiological action of drugs, not only that they may use them when indicated, but also to avoid them when they are entirely out of place. Just as drugs may be required for their mechanical or physiological action in internal diseases, so may surgery itself be indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."