Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear.

  • Spear, Edmund Doe.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Medical hand-book : containing a statement of the principal diseases, with testimonials of remarkable cures / by E.D. Spear. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TO PATIENTS. None but an experienced physician can understand and appreciate the necessity of a strict compliance with the di- rections he gives. It is in many cases a matter of life and death, for, however potent the medicine, its effects may be neutralized by a careless or reckless disregard of the direc- tions given. If the patient is doing well, he should take courage, and persevere in the course marked out, with the same strictness and care as at first, for thus only can a full and permanent cure be assured. It is with me a settled principle never to recommend a remedy for a specific disease, unless there exists the strong- est reason that the medicine will prove adequate to the re- moval of the complaint. Hence, when my directions are implicitly followed by the patient, I have the fullest confi- dence of his restoration to health. Let the patient then co- operate with the physician; let him make an earned and persevering effort in the right direction, and beaming health — the greatest and best earthly boon that man can enjoy — shall be his reward.