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Doctor and Patient

by Silas Weir Mitchell

2019-01-09 01:41:05

The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to intere ... Read more
The essays which compose this volume deal chiefly with a variety of subjects to which every physician must have given more or less thought. Some of them touch on matters concerning the mutual relation of physician and patient, but are meant to interest and instruct the laity rather than the medical attendant. The larger number have from their nature a closer relation to the needs of women than of men. It has been my fate of late years to have in my medical care very many women who, from one or another cause, were what is called nervous. Few of them were so happily constituted as to need from me neither counsel nor warnings. Very often such were desired, more commonly they were given unsought, as but a part of that duty which the physician feels, a duty which is but half fulfilled when we think of the body as our only province. Less

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File size96.161 KB
Print pages126
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-07-17
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781113047533,
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States February 15, 1829 Died: January 04, 1914 Genre: Professional & Technical, Health, Mind & Body, Historical Fiction Silas Weir Mitchell was an ...

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