Doctors and Their Work (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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No one, whose daily experience has for many years brought him into contact, as a medical or surgical adviser, with people of both sexes and of all ranks and ages, can have failed to observe how deeply rooted in many minds is a faith in certain doctors, or in certain ao-called methods of treatment, or in cer tain ao-called remedies, for which the faithful themselves would be unable to assign any foundation in reason, in evidence, or even in probability. It would seem to follow, as a matter of course, that although such faith may sometimes be justified by events, it must in a definite proportion of cases be misleading; and, when misleading, it can scarcely fail to be productive of loss - it may be of money, or of time, or of health, or possibly of all three. It has been the aim of the writer, in the following.

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