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tion of


a serious complication, or of a disease, for some simple


derangement, ie too great, much greater than


that of


getting


medical advice ;provided


inquiry is


made for the


best.


Besides the local physicians, there are now, always in all fre-


quented places, medical
trv. well known to the


only


one


instance,


men from other portions of the coun-


profession.


in illustration


The writer


of many


will refer to
which have


fallen under his observation.


A well-known physician of


one


largest


Northern


cities


accompanied


patient


Jacksonville the;past winter, and introduced him


nent


physician


of that


place.


Subsequently, the


to a promi-
latter was


called in


, and found that the gentleman had, from some impru-


dence, taken


a severe cold


a few


days


before, and had been


endeavoring to


get along the best way he could without med-


advice.


He said,


"Doctor, I don't know if I


have


done


right in sending for you,


for Dr.


charged me not to send


for a


physician ;unless


was absolutely


disease proved to be capillary bronchitis,


irremediable even if taken


at the onset.


necessary." The
which is frequently
He was in a hope-


less condition, and died within


twenty-four


hours.


Another,


scarcely less


serious, and


even


writer's opinion (one, indeed,


more


to which


prevalent error,


we must


in the
a cer-


tain extent, plead guilty), is, concealing from the invalid, and
even also from the friends or relatives, the true nature of the


disease.


This entails


unpleasant


consequences


both


on the


profession and the patients.


The true pathological


condition


not being stated,


the different


physicians


who


may be called


in at different


times


to examine


the case are not


apt to


upon the sa:ne statement,


and


thus


public


berate


us for


disagreeing, and the science of medicine is scandalized, or our


honesty is
is a little


impugned.


weak;"


of this lung ;"


One says to the invalid,


another,
another,


" There
" There


" Your


lung


is a little pleuritis at the
is some consolidation at


the apex; "


"The


air does not enter quite as well in


one
dif-.


lung as in the other;"


culty;


"The tubes are


" There


is a little


slightly affected."


bronchial


Often


" chronic


& A


:':4,


, pqWQPS pilB


diagnosed.


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