The student's guide to medical diagnosis / by Samuel Fenwick.

  • Samuel Fenwick
Date:
1876
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Credit: The student's guide to medical diagnosis / by Samuel Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    TO THE EIRST EDITION. The following pages were originally designed to assist the students attending the medical out-patient department of the London Hospital. The plan of instruction generally pursued there is to give to each pupil a succession of cases of a similar character. In this way, whilst one is practising the laryngoscope, another is studying auscultation, a third aifections of the nervous system, and so on. After examining a case, the student is expected to state his diagnosis, and the treatment he would adopt. Although this method of individual instruction is doubtless more beneficial than the practice of teaching in classes, yet it necessarily involves a constant repetition on the part of the teacher. To obviate the loss of time thus incurred, I commenced to write out some general rules for diagnosis, which the student might keep beside him as a gaiide in his examina- tions. It was afterwards suggested to me to elaborate
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