Nature In Disease An Address Before The Norfolk District Medical Society Of Massachusetts At The Annual Meeting May 12 1852

Author : Benjamin Eddy Cotting
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331087406
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Nature in Disease written by Benjamin Eddy Cotting and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature in Disease: An Address Before the Norfolk District Medical Society of Massachusetts, at the Annual Meeting, May 12, 1852 It may be said, and with truth, that this is a difficult question to de cide - that single cases vary greatly in character - that the constitution and state of the patient are not the same, for any two individuals - that in its tendency, severity and complications, each case differs from every other; But all this does not alter the proposition. I From such cases we are constantly proclaiming the value of certain remedies, and deducing plausible theories of treatment. Aye, but the experiment - who will be bold enough to try it? The sin of omission in practice is the unpar donable of offences. To have tried everything that could be thought of is the impregnable retreat of the baffled practitioner, and a balmy seda tive to the bereaved. Nevertheless, until the benefits of the prescription over its omission be known, the administration of a drug is as great and as hazardous an experiment as the withholding of it. Who can say with truth that it is not even more dangerous? The popular reasoning, that it will do no harm if it does no good, may be sufficiently satisfactory to ignorant and officious bystanders, who seem sometimes to literally revel in an opportunity to crowd a patient's stomach with multifarious mix tures. And to load his person with offensive masses; but it will hardly bear the test of ordinary common sense. The suffering individual may prefer the trial at any risk, under the irksomeness of debility or the pangs of disease; but a compliance with his wishes, followed by recovery, is not proof positive that he has been benefited thereby. 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.