The power of nature in disease / by J. Wallace Anderson, M.D., formerly physician to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, and lecturer on medicine, Queen Margaret College.

  • Anderson, J. Wallace (James Wallace)
Date:
1899
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Credit: The power of nature in disease / by J. Wallace Anderson, M.D., formerly physician to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, and lecturer on medicine, Queen Margaret College. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much we can help her. Let no one imagine this is easy. The complexity of the human organism in its structure, functions and relations surrounds the subject with every difficulty. Here again we find our stimulus to individual thought and work. Here too is the criterion of the practice of the expectant method. If by this is meant the habitual folding of the hands on the part of the practitioner, the ban of Asclepiades is well deserved. But it is not the doctrine of Nature's healing power that is assailed by this abuse of the expectant method. Though timid and feeble folk should shelter themselves behind its creed, the reproach is not upon the doctrine but upon themselves. So far from inculcating a policy of inaction, it calls us to further effort and renewed thought, that in the clearer light of Nature's methods we may learn to find our own. TURNBULL AND SPEARS, FRtNTBRS, BDINBURGH.