Literary Methods in Medicine

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Excerpt from Literary Methods in Medicine: A Lecture Delivered Before the W. W. Keen Surgical Society of the Jefferson Medical CollegeFirst comes the title of the paper or case, and I would advise you to take pains to select a good title. Never use such a title as Two Interesting Surgical Cases, or An Unusual Surgical Case, etc. These papers will go in the Index Medicus under precisely the title you give, and the title mentioned gives no clue to the nature of the cases you report. Suppose I am hunting up cases of operation for perforation of the intestine in typhoid fever, how can I know that the papers just named refer to just the class of cases I am seeking for? The fact is that such papers are probably never read. State what you are writing about clearly and tersely, if it be a case, give it a good descriptive name, and if there were any unusual complications de serving attention or any novel procedure employed, state it in the title. When you want to write your paper and have your title and material, I would suggest that you first take the etiology, next the pathology (often these two are comparatively intertwined), third, the symptoms of the case fourth, the physical signs fifth, the diagnosis Sixth, the differential diagnosis, seventh, the prognosis, and, eighth, the treat ment. This plan gives a logical method to your paper. It is often well, also, at the end of a paper to make a summary of your con elusions, so that there may be crystallized out of your paper the prin cipal conclusions that you have been led to. Always try to express yourself clearly. Never try to use fine language, write plainly and simply so that anybody may understand it. When I see a paper written by a man whose former papers have been marked by clearness and good sense, I always read it. You soon learn to size up the writers of papers and books.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.