 | 1803 - 400 pages
...circumstances, to the friends of the patients," Dr. Percival's aphorism in the text is, as follows : •' A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications; because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the... | |
 | Medicine - 1824 - 216 pages
...applied to the faculty; but it should certainly be construed with great limitation by their patients. 4. — A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications; because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of Ills services in the treatment or cure of the... | |
 | Michael Ryan - Medical jurisprudence - 1836 - 608 pages
...unclouded head, may be essential to the well-being, and even to the life, of a fellow-creature. III. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications ; because they savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the... | |
 | College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1846 - 478 pages
...virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed. 5. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications ; because they savour of epiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease.... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 134 pages
...change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to...him liable to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savour of empiricism,... | |
 | 1847 - 834 pages
...change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to...tend to diminish the authority of the physician, and expose him to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. — A physician should not be forward to make... | |
 | Medicine - 1848 - 350 pages
...change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to...him liable to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savour of empiricism,... | |
 | Medicine - 1848 - 910 pages
...change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to the patient, tend to diminish the authority oí the physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. } 4. A physician should... | |
 | Medicine - 1848 - 590 pages
...change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to...him liable to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism,... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - Medical ethics - 1849 - 492 pages
...preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give<useless anxiety to the patient, tend to diminish the authority...him liable to be suspected of interested motives. $ 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism,... | |
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Frequent visits to the sick are in general requisite, since they enable the physician to arrive at a more perfect knowledge of the disease, to meet promptly every change which may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary... 
