Lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street : 1883-1884 / by Robert J. Lee.

  • Lee, Robert James.
Date:
[1884 or 1885?]
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Credit: Lectures delivered at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street : 1883-1884 / by Robert J. Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTTJEE I. Introductory. The question is often asked What is the best book on Diseases of Children ? It is not an easy question to answer. A good book is a great help if, along with read- ing, it is possible to see examples of the maladies described. Without assistance in clinical study, even with a good supply of examples, it is a long time before the difficulties of diagnosis are overcome, and some grasp is obtained by the mind and the senses of the differences between the exact description of the text-book and the varying features of disease. The study of Medicine is like the study of a language. ! A text-book may be a dictionary, or it may be a grammar. Our text-books try to combine the two, with more or less success, according to the amount of knowledge possessed by the student himself. A full and complete work is what the advanced student desires ; a simple, clear, well arranged and convenient book is what is generally wanted by those who ask the question, What is the best book on the subject ? We are all students, students of the language of nature, some more profiV cient than others, but all anxious to know and understand more and more of the infinite variety and subtlety of this language. It