Pneumonia and typhoid fever : a study.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
Date:
1891
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    of treatment, continues Dr. Peabody, are still in the large majority here. The expectant plan seems in a general ivay to make ns quite cofitent with our bad resultsy and to lead tis to expect the patient to die if he becomes gravely ilir [The italics are mine.] But ihQ people 3XQ by no means content with our bad results. They are growing more and more res- tive— indeed, rebellious. Witness the rise of the Mental Scientists and the Faith Curers, whose prac- tice, though without doubt less fatal than the one to which their theory is a protest, is nevertheless (except, it has to be said, in strict justice, in a class of ailments which require simply the element of mental or moral stimulus), atrocious in that it does not embrace helps to Nature in her extremity. The fact of the matter is that not all who seek entrance to the profession are by natural endow- ment at all adapted to the calling. The average boy goes to a medical school and takes his hourly cramming on each of the various subjects, like a Strasburg goose under treatment to produce a fat liver ; and he must be a goose, indeed, if he gets plucked at last, for, as we all know, the dear old Profs hate mortally to refuse a diploma to even the biggest dunce in the class after he has spent his money and time grinding through the mill for the stipulated term.