Lectures on Subjects Connected With Clinical Medicine: Comprising Diseases of the Heart (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Latham, P. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330517377 ISBN 13: 9781330517376

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Lectures on Subjects Connected With Clinical Medicine: Comprising Diseases of the Heart The Lectures contained in this volume are the first of a series which I am engaged in giving to the Students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It is, however, no part of my duty, as one of the physicians to St. Bartholomew's, to deliver lectures. The obligations of my office are limited to the wards of the Hospital; where my business is to attend the sick, and to aid the studies of those who seek the knowledge of disease at the bedside of the patient. But, since there are many things which must be first understood, in order that our inquiries at the bedside may be pursued more profitably, I have thought that the practical student had a further claim upon me for any information I could afford him which might be necessary or conducive to his purpose. And thus I have been led to give occasional lectures "On Subjects connected with Clinical Medicine." Considering the time of life at which the majority of those who are intended to practise physic begin their professional education, few can be supposed at once to understand the objects with which it is conversant. I have therefore endeavoured to put in as clear a light as I could, what is the nature of Facts and Opinions, and Theories and Principles, in medicine; and what concern the clinical student has with each; and how important it is for him rightly to distinguish between one and the other. With respect to the mode of conducting his inquiries at the bedside, I have suggested to him how to observe and what to observe; what demands his present attention and what may wait the season of his more mature experience; what books to read and what to abstain from reading; and the sort of knowledge which is principally auxiliary to clinical medicine. But the subject to which I have chiefly desired to direct the student's attention is Semeiology, or the Doctrine of Symptoms; not for the sake of pointing out the symptoms of particula

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330517377
• ISBN 13: 9781330517376
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202