On the preservation of health, or, Essays explanatory of the principles to be adopted by those who desire to avoid disease / by Thomas Inman.

  • Inman, Thomas, 1820-1876.
Date:
1871
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Credit: On the preservation of health, or, Essays explanatory of the principles to be adopted by those who desire to avoid disease / by Thomas Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXn. THE USE OF A DOOTOE. The use of a doctor—Notions respecting—American ladies and abortion—Folks often dictate to doctors—Amputation of leg to gain a wife; another version of same story—Case of lady, account of her consultations with physician—The influence of earnestness—Value of sympathy—Prolonged misery from disbelief in reality of suffering—A noble woman—Her remarks upon the history given by author—Copy of her letter—Her estimate of the use of a doctor—Her strictures upon the unbelief of friends—Her disgust at certain doctors— Her account of trance—Omission of morphia exhilarates— Intoxication from abstinence— Ecstasies of Papal virgins who fast—Patient making excuses to get chloroform—Influ- ence of a judicious doctor required by the sick—Patients left to themselves go wrong—Eecommendation to the author— Patient and truth—The value of kindness—The author's early hospital experience—Patients before dying express a desire to be dissected—The lady dissects herself before leaving life—A surgeon's experience—Lady complains of uterine suffering—Cause foimd in the rectum; reason for misrepresentation—Doctor dictated to — Disobedient—Dis- missed—Supplanted by a pUant one—Conversation between the two—Fools are fleeced—Paterfamilias and physician— Father's fancies about physicians who don't physick—Influ- ence of bread and butter upon treatment—People pay for prejudices—Doctors paid well for not curing clients—Case in point—Physicians fees for curing patients are small—Case in point—False teeth in throat—It pays better to keep a patient than to cure him—Case—One who knows his profession, and one who knows his business, compared— Medical reviews do not generally patronise pure science— Every man selects his religion and his pathy —Eeal use of a doctor propounded—Clients should not give to doctors a clue to their own conclusions—Policeman Blue Pill—Colo- cynth, his assistant—Don't try to drive a doctor, but watch