Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. 16

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Excerpt from Interstate Medical Journal, Vol. 16: January-December, 1909 Individuality is a force to-dav in nearly every walk of life except in medicine. There, knowledge counts for much, and rightly, but knowledge is not, nor can it ever be, the agent which alone is capable of combating certain symptoms which are the concomitants Of nearly all the graver symptoms so beloved of all painstaking practitioners. What the im portance Of the so-called lesser symptoms is, need not be contended here: but that they have eluded the supposedly firm grasp of the doctor of today is made manifest to all of us by the success of the multiplicity Of religious healing societies. And they have eluded him because of his unwillingness to reckon them in the same category with all those salient points of disease inculcated into him in his college curriculum, or by the various text-books that have broadened his mind when he was a full ¿edged doctor. Whether or not a vagary that becomes a fixed idea should be met with sympathy or derision, depends on the mental bias. Of the at tending doctor, and has so many ramifications as an argumentative proposition that only a very brave man would attempt to define his rea sons for assuming a staunch attitude in the matter. But even his strongest contention for his attitude towards peculiar mental manifesta tions, will not make the kindliest critic think better of him, unless the convincing fact Obtains that by sheer force of his individuality there was a complete cessation of all untoward mental symptoms. 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.