Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the urinary organs : and on dropsies / by Robert Bentley Todd.

  • Todd, Robert Bentley, 1809-1860.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Clinical lectures on certain diseases of the urinary organs : and on dropsies / by Robert Bentley Todd. 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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    observations, and keeping notes for themselves. Men should work in a hospital, as they do in a laboratory, under direction: and the Director should be one who is himself skilled and expe- rienced, and able to teach others, while he is observing and collecting facts for himself. The London hospitals present a vast field for clinical observation and instruction. They offer, I believe, greater opportunities to the student of medicine and surgery than even the gigantic hos- pitals of Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, inasmuch as with us the beds are all occupied with important cases, while in the latter institutions many find an asylum who, in this country, would be con- signed to the workhouse. But in the foreign hospitals clinical work (under which term I would include observation as well as teaching) is more thoroughly systematized; and they are, on that account, made more available for the advancement of medical science. A physician, whose mind is thoroughly im- bued with the importance of the study of medicine in what I would call a clinical spirit, cannot visit his patients in a hospital and make the neces- sary inquiries respecting their several maladies without giving clinical instruction to the pupils who accompany him, even although he may offer but few remarks to them. But his class is not likely to derive the full profit from this kind of teaching, unless they follow him regularly and