Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton.

  • Crompton, Samuel Willard.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Medical reporting, or, Case-taking : being an attempt to prove that it is necessary for the medical attendants of families to record the particulars of their patients' illnesses, and the peculiarities of their constitutions, in order to treat their illnesses with due care : with suggestions for overcoming the difficulties which have hitherto prevented medical case-taking from becoming general / by Samuel Crompton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    de gratest ixnportans. But if a mudur forgets suq a fact, S iz it ljcli dat a medical man can remembxxr it. If, hsevxu, memoranda war mad at eg vizit, and if de facts dat hav transpjrd durig de ilnes, troig ljt on de pajents constitiijxxn, war, at de turminajun ov dat ilnes, copid in a buc cept for dat purpus, el dis uusurtenti wiad be dun awa wid. clis buc Jud contan evuri asxutanabl fact respectixj de pajents constitnjun, and doz facts Jud be so aranjd az tui admit ov beip redili refiu’d tux. Anudxw advantej tux de pajent wud be, dat if de recordz ov de peextfiaritiz ov biz constitxijun or prezurvd bj biz medical atendant, da can be banded dx>n tux de necst at- endant. Anudur advantej tux de pajent wud be, dat in de event ov its beii) neseseri tux bav furdur advjs, de consultip fizijan wud bav de sixjgulur advantej ov refuriij txu a record ov el de facts ov de cas, and wud dus be enabld txu form a mor aciiret opiniun ov its natxir, and txu preserjb acordiijli. cIo cas-taciij wud ental adijuned trxxbl, dar ccai be no dst dat it wud be advantajus txu de practijunxxr. It wud giv de pajent increst confidens in biz medical atendant. He practis ov fizic wud be rendurd eziur bj its xis, for if a cas iz recorded, and dar bapnz txu be eni dificulti in its cxy, de nots can be carfuli analjzd at njt, or in de carij—eq fact caxx be wad bj itself —de cas can be compard wid suq az ocur in bucs; and dus de tretment can be eltxud acordiij txu de imprejun created in de mjnd bj dis retrospect. And Jxurli suq a revxi ov a ritn bistori ov a cas iz muq mor ljcli tux led txu a safxw and mor rapid cxir, dan if de memori cdon bad ben trusted tux in de retrospect, cle practijunxxr wud hav de furdur advantej ov feliij dat, hwjl be woz taciij casiz, be woz colectixj materialz for de advansment ov biz art; so dat de famili medical atendant bj adoptiij de practis ov cas- taciij, wud not ordi be benefitiij biz pajent and himself, but be wud be imprxuviq de art ov medisin. clis be cud dux widst vjolatip de confidens ov de pajent, and widst de sljtest rise ov biz pajents nam beiij non, for de report wud contaxx no nam. cle Comenteriz ov Dr. Heburden Jo bs muq wun man ma dux tordz de advansment ov biz cut. If an old practijunxxr djz, levixj no memoranda bebjnd him, biz det et tux be regarded az a culcimiti txxx eq ov biz pajents and tux de wurld; for, el de nolej hwiq he liaz gand ov de constitiijxuxz ov biz pajents djz wid him, and so duz el de eesperiens hwiq be haz acximulated in de practis ov hiz profejun. Trj tux consev de sufurhj, pan, and nxizuri, hwiq xnust bav egzisted lxwar dat eesperiens woz gadurd. Onli tiijc ov de tszandz ov casiz hwiq must hav ben treted bj a famili practijunxxr in de cars ov a loij Ijf. Hwen we considur dat dar iz no ilnes lxwiq duz not ctford materialz tux