Year: 1854
Type: article
Abstract: We know not that we can, in any way, render a greater service to the young and inexperienced members of our profession, than by of fering the following suggestions as to the proper rules to be observed in adapting and proportioning the medicines which they use in the treatment of disease.We well remember the embarrassment which we sometimes felt in the early days of our professional career, in con sequence of the failure of the remedies administered to meet what we regarded the plain indications of the case.Subsequent experience has taught us not only that the error was in us, but how, to our own comfort as well as to the relief of our patients, we might have avoided that embarrassment.We shall be compensated, in some measure, for the pain to which we were subjected, if our experience shall be the means of saving others from like error and like suffering.The common fault of all novitiates in the practice is, that they are jyhat is familiarly known as routine practitioners: that is, they follow
Source: PubMed Central
Author: T P Atkinson
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4386529273