On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne.
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the duties of physicians, resulting from their profession / by Thomas Gisborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![abstruse, can be acquired without industrious and regular application. Diligent attendance therefore on the different public lectures delivered by the Professors, as well as on the hospitals where the l>rinciples stated in those lectures are reduced to practice, and exemplified in the explanation of cases, and in the several methods of treating ])atients labouring under different diseases, or under different modifications of the same disease, and varying from each other in sex, in age, and in constitution, is indispensably requisite. To these sources of improvement the Student must not neglect to add private reading and reflection ; nor the useful custom of noting down interesting par- ticulars to which it may be highly advantageous to refer on future occasions, more especially those im- portant facts which are to be learned at cUnical lectures ; nor the habit of examining himself daily in the acquisitions of the preceding day, that he may fix upon his memory what he has learned, may become conscious of the particulars which he has forgotten, and may enable himself to reconcile difficulties or seeming inconsistencies by farther consideration, or by referring them to some intel- hgent and experienced friend. While he applies himself principally to the theory and practice of Physic, to Anatomy, and other branches of medi- cal knowledge, which are confessedly foremost](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954033_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
