Introductory Lecture to the Clinical Course of the Philadelphia Hospital

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Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Clinical Course of the Philadelphia Hospital: For the Winter of 1855-6It is to make you safe and efficient practitioners, that the teaching of the schools and the hospitals are united. In the practice of this hospital it is our object to give you the most ample opportunities for observation. We expect to be able to show you, during the present course, nearly every form of disease you may be called upon to attend. Those cases which are of most frequent occurrence, and are consequently of most importance to you - in a practical point of view - will be most frequently presented we intend to exhibit to you the various changes that take place in the same cases, that you may be able to trace step by step their vicissitudes, whether they result in death or recovery, and enable you to decide upon the usefulness of the agents employed, from your own experience.In this way, it is our object to pursue a rational course of instruction. You are not to expect at every succeeding visit here, to see an entire change in the programme of performance, in order either to amuse or astonish you. Ours is a plain and practical school of experience, where there are no jealousies, and no rivalry, except that rivalry which seeks the elevation of the science of medicine, and that jealous care of the sufi'er ing, that tends to the alleviation of human misery.It may, however, be argued, that the Clinics established by many of the colleges, anticipate for the student every advan tage and opportunity the Hospital presents, and that every argument in favor of hospital attendance applies with equal force to the clinical lectures of our city schools. This argu ment, so far as the dazzling operations in surgery which may take place in this amphitheatre, are concerned, may be a valid one and I am not unwilling to admit that all such operations, whether they be performed in your presence, here or elsewhere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.