Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1683 [i.e. 1783]
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and iri acute and urgent cafes, generally twice every day, in prefence of the ftudents. Thefe reports are all reviewed, when the cafe becomes the fubjett of the clinical lecfture. There can- not, therefore, be a more ufeful addition to a medical college, nor a more favourable inftku- tion for the improvement of the ftudent, of the phyfician, or of medicine itfelf. In that point of light I have always confidered the clinical ward ; and, therefore, think myfelf account- able to the public for the ufe which I have made of fuch advantages. That opinion produced the following publication. As there are many obftacles to the improve- rhent of medicine, l'o there are feveral aids, which, if carefully attended to, will give it a great degree of certainty. One of thefe, is a defeription of all the circumftances preceding* attending, and following the adminiftration of different remedies, in morbid cafes. Remedies exhibited ih fuch difeafed Rates of the bodv, and the effe&s refulting from their operation, when accurately and faithfully deferibed, are real experiments in this branch of natural know- ledge, and tend to make medicine as certain as mod other fciences. With this view, during my attendance on the clinical ward for two fummers, and a part of fix winters, the following experiments were made, to afeertain die effects and value of fe- veral