Applied pathology : being a guide to the application of modern pathological methods to diagnosis and treatment / by Julius M. Bernstein.

  • Bernstein, Julius M.
Date:
1913
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    the experienced practitioner, who would have as a consulting authority the physician-pathologist. But there is no reason why medical men should not have a knowledge of laboratory technique, nor indeed that they should not be able to carr}'^ out many of the methods of investigation, such as an intelligent examination of the urine, morpho- logical investigations of the blood, bacterioscopic investigations of diphtheria, the demonstration of spirochseta, etc., and even, if time could be found, cultural investigations which, in the case of diph- theria especially, would pave the way to diagnosis. The equipment for such work is simple, and could be obtained at no great expense, and the technique is not elaborate. At the present day it is the fashion to send such investigations to one or other of the trade labora- tories—places in which the interest in the work can be only of a commercial nature. How much more important would be the results obtained by a medical man examining material from his own patient, with a thorough knowledge of the facts to direct his investigations or to produce corroboration of his findings ! Such is the ideal of the new school of physician- pathologists. Meanwhile the transitional period is with us, with its trade laboratories pouring out reports at request—reports which often, to say the least, cannot be rightly understood, and which call for an interpreter to put these new findings into a language within the comprehension of all. This is the object aimed at in these pages, in