Some Common Remedies and Their Use in Practice (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I N these days we hear much of modern methods of treatment, and there is no doubt that the recent advances in our knowledge of the patho logy of infection and the influence of micro organisms upon animal life have opened to us a new class of remedies and suggested many important changes in the management of disease. The value of these special cures in special cases, and their superiority over the old plans of treatment to which they have been preferred, no practical physician would venture to deny. But, after all, the cases so benefited are special cases, limited in number; and although in the future this line of treatment will probably be greatly extended, we are not yet in a position to maintain that because 'we have improved upon our predecessors in one direction, all their methods are to becondemned and their remedies despised.

One of the results of this widened therapeutical outlook seems to be that the new subject of bacteriology has come to occupy a dispropor tionate space in the mind of the student, and that in his devotion to it he is led to neglect general treatment altogether, and to forget that patients, when they come to him for advice, will expect to be cured. But drugs have still their value, and have not yet been superseded by antitoxic mums and vaccines. The writer has often been struck by the want of therapeutical knowledge shown by the young men, newly qualified, who apply for resident posts at our hospitals - men willing to learn, and probably familiar with the latest niceties of bacteriological research. Many of them seem to be of opinion that when they have made a diagnosis their duty is at an end, and that the most ex acting patient can ask for no more; while those who proceed to treatment, if they order drugs at all, do so in a haphazard way, evidently little aware of the capabilities of the remedies they employ, or of the necessity of suiting them to the condition they are expected to relieve.

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