The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap.

  • De Styrap, Jukes.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The young practitioner : with practical hints and instructive suggestions as subsidiary aids for his guidance on entering into private practice : being modified selections from, with additions to, "The Physician Himself" / by Jukes de Styrap. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    interest, and that of the general public, it would be well if there were a renewal of the system of apprenticeship with a general practitioner, for a limited period of (say) two years. [That the five years' apprenticeship, under the old system, was far too long, there can be no doubt. Never- theless, it is to be hoped that the day will not be long deferred, when pupilage, in some form or other, will, in the interest of the faculty and the public alike, be re-enacted for a period of not less than two years—to commence, as in former days, prior (not intermediately or subsequently) to the usual professional training in a medical school; for it will be far better that a youth should thus be engaged immediately after leaving school, than in the loathsome Lock-wards of a metropolitan hospital, or exposed to the repellent scenes in the dissecting-room. It will assuredly be early enough after the preliminary period of apprenticed pupilage for him to look upon the dark, depraved, and seamy side of life.] Although the list of incompatibles is a long one, you will do well to learn it thoroughly, otherwise you will subject yourself to the sarcastic remarks of the pharmaceutist, and, it may be, of assumed professional in- competency by others—to be followed ere long, perhaps, of whispered doubts and disparaging innuendoes. Study assiduously to avoid the cause. Many people really believe that we write prescriptions in Latin in order to mask the ingredients. The true intent, however, is to give a concise and specific name to each article, so that, when prescribed, misinterpretation, as between prescriber and compounder, may be prevented ; moreover, the Latin names of drugs are the same through- out Europe, America, and elsewhere, and can be read by