A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the treatment or cure of the disease. But he should not fail, on proper occasions, to give to the friends... The Literary journal - Page 3291803Full view - About this book
| Worthington Hooker - 1849 - 492 pages
...motives. $ 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...of danger, when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| Worthington Hooker - 1850 - 332 pages
...the authority of the Physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. § 4. A Physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications,...of danger, when it really occurs ; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| Kentucky State Medical Society - 1851 - 394 pages
...motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they^savour of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...of danger, when it really occurs, and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| College of Physicians of Philadelphia - 1851 - 570 pages
...motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...friends of the patient timely notice of danger when 86 it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however,... | |
| 1852 - 750 pages
...diminish the authority of the physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. $ 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications...danger •when it really occurs ; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| 1852 - 542 pages
...physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savour of impiricism, by magnifying the importance of his services in the...of danger when it really occurs ; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when exercised... | |
| Indiana State Medical Association, Indiana State Medical Society - 1853 - 312 pages
...motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...notice of danger when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is BO peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher - 1854 - 592 pages
...motives. SEC. 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...of danger, when it really occurs ; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
| Wisconsin - 1855 - 1124 pages
...motives. Sec. 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...of danger, when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office however, is so peculiarly alarming, when executed... | |
| Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1856 - 264 pages
...motives. § 4. A physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, because they savor of empiricism, by magnifying the importance of his...notice of danger when it really occurs; and even to the patient himself, if absolutely necessary. This office, however, is so peculiarly alarming when executed... | |
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