The Practice of Medicine

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Excerpt from The Practice of Medicine: A Guide to the Nature, Discrimination and Management of DiseaseThe following pages represent an effort to prepare for the student and the junior practitioner of medicine a guide to the nature, discrim imation, and management of disease that should contain the essentials unadorned with great detail. Since the determination of what is really essential must be a matter of individual judgment, the greatest problem encountered was what to exclude, so that the book, without exceeding a convenient limit, should be comprehensive, properly balanced, and in good perspective. An acquaintance with the present development and the trend of medical education, and a teacher's appreciation of the needs of students, make one realize the embarrassment of riches, the large number of facts, too often placed before minds not yet qualified to sort them in their order of importance and grasp their mutual bear ings. This defect of medical pedagogy violates the physiology of the mind, which. Is so constituted that the natural stimulus to interest, and therefore to recollection, is the tracing of rational connection. The resulting mental indigestion and lethargy appear at examination time and when the student or junior practitioner is confronted with the necessity of applying at the bedside principles ill understood. A book, of course. Cannot replace actual clinical experience, but it should in fairness offer its readers a well-ordered statement of existing knowledge as a basis for training their powers of observation and reasoning, espe cially in conformity with opportunities presented at the bedside.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.