Lectures on the duties and qualifications of a physician / Revised and corrected by James Gregory.

  • James Gregory
Date:
1805
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Credit: Lectures on the duties and qualifications of a physician / Revised and corrected by James Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •necessary in' the pradlice of physic. They can feel whatever is amiable in pity, without suf- fering it to enervate or unman them. Such physicians as are callous to sentiments of huma- nity, treat this sympathy with ridicule, and re- present it either as hypocrisy, or as the indica- tion of a feeble mind. That sympathy is often affected, I am afraid is true ; but this affectation may be easily seen thi'ough. Real sympathy is never ostentatious; on the contrary, it rather •strives to conceal itself. But what most effec- tually detects this hypocrisy is a plr)'sician’s dif- ferent manner of behaving to people in high and people in low life; to those who reward him handsomely, aud those who have not the means to do it. A generous and elevated mind is even more shy in expressing sympathy with those of high rank, than with those in humbler life; being jealous of the unworthy construc- tion so usually annexed to it.—The insinuation •that a compassionate and feeling heart is com- monly accompanied with a weak understanding and a feeble mind is malignant and false. Ex- perience
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