Author : Frank Sherman Meara
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528584470
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)
Book Synopsis The Treatment of Acute Infectious Diseases (Classic Reprint) by : Frank Sherman Meara
Download or read book The Treatment of Acute Infectious Diseases (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Sherman Meara and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Treatment of Acute Infectious Diseases To the layman the word physician connotes a therapeutist; one whose professional end and aim it is to cure the sick. If he thinks of the physician at all as a student of the science of medicine or as a diagnostician it is only in the sense that he is busied with matters that shall lead to the prevention, cure or alleviation of dis ease; and yet every practitioner of medicine, seeking assistance in the exercise of his art, feels the disproportion of the much that is offered him of the cause, the course and the consequences of disease and the little that is afforded of the practical application of this knowledge to its legitimate uses, getting the sick man well. As a teacher of therapeutics I have always felt that this branch of medicine has been unduly neglected both in the college curriculum and in the text-book. With the text-book my experience has been that it either speaks in generalities assuming knowledge on the part of the student or physician, when such an assumption should annul its very reason for being, or it catalogues and compiles endless measures and pro cedures without effort to exercise a judgment of their relative values. The few exceptions to this statement make themselves conspicuous. Successfully or not, it has been the attempt of the author to avoid these extremes of error. 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.