A handbook of suggestive therapeutics, applied hypnotism, psychic science / by Henry S. Munro.

  • Munro, Henry S. (Henry Sumner), 1869-
Date:
1907
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Credit: A handbook of suggestive therapeutics, applied hypnotism, psychic science / by Henry S. Munro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Four hundred and eighty dollars. And you are not afraid to hurt her feelings with that sized bill? Oh, no, she was quite well satisfied and paid it without a murmur. Why, doctor, if I saw no reason for that woman staying in bed and having me visit her twice a day I would as leave take money from off a dead man's eyes as receive pay for such work. That is just the difference between us, said he. And it was. And this illustrates a type of men everywhere who call themselves physicians. Some physicians are actually convinced that they have done their duty when they have been kind, sympathetic, and attentive to their patients and prescribed for them medicinally. Since their patients are satisfied they seem to feel that they have done their whole duty. So long as there is money in the case, the recovery of the patient does not seem to concern them. The absolute lack of moral courage displayed by this class of doctors, who upon the surface give the appearance of being honest and conscientious professional gentlemen, is horrible to contemplate. They use narcotics freely, even when contra- indicated, inhibiting the normal physiological process, robbing their patients of self-reliance, rendering them absolutely de- pendent upon the physician, lessening in every way their resist- ive powers, and actually retarding recovery. We all have seen such men who in the spirit of cold commercialism impress by word and conduct on their patients that they are very sick, when this attitude on the physician's part has proved to be a