Medical and Physiological Problems : Being Chiefly Researches for Correct Principles of Treatment in Disputed Points of Medical Practice (Classic Reprint). William Griffin
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There are two modes of treating all diseases, a right and a wrong one; and it is popularly believed that the science of Medicine has long since determined between them; that in every dangerous case, or, at all events, in those of ordinary or frequent occurrence, the practitioner has only to refer to received principles or authorities on the subject, and that if he commits an error in his selection of remedies, it is entirely attributable to his want of information or ability. It would, no doubt, astonish the public very much, and do little credit to medical art, if they were told, that there is scarcely a complaint to which humanity is liable, the treatment of which is, in all points, absolutely agreed upon by the profession; and that with reference to the most ordinary of dangerous cases, and those supposed to be best understood, remedies of a different and even opposite nature have been advocated by men of the highest celebrity. It is little imagined the deep responsibility that rests with the young physician, when a decision is demanded of him on such occasions, or the profound judgment, as well as extensive information required to arrive at a correct conclusion between conflicting authorities of equal consideration. Whatever his decision may be, if he is himself sufficiently informed of the difficulties, he must act under the depressing assurance, that if the result is fortunate the judgment evinced in overcoming them will never be appreciated, while, if it be otherwise, there will not be wanting persons to inquire why other modes of treatment were not adopted.
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