Answers to the aspirant's queries. The terms physic

and physician. The nature and extent of the phy-

sician's mission. A glimpse at the medicine of

early times. The term chirurgery. The slow ad-

vance of the healing art during many ages, and its

rapid progress in the nineteenth century. The

true physician of the present, his labors and re-

sponsibilities..

3-17

II

PHYSICIANS OF THE PAST

The aspirant's desire to know something of physicians

of the past.
A few biographic notes illustrative of

devotion to the art and science of medicine. The

early cultivation of anatomy by Alexandrian phy-

sicians. Arabian physicians. The great physi-

cians of Italy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Ger-

many, France, England, and America.

III

TEACHERS, SCHOOLS, AND STUDENTS OF MEDICINE

Medical teachers in ancient times. The temple

schools. The Crotona school. The Hippocra-

tic school. The Alexandrian school. The Saler-

18-34

nian school. The schools of France monastic

from the tenth to the fifteenth century. The

Italian, French, and Dutch universities. Desault

and his colleagues the beginners of the modern

Parisian school of medicine. American teachers

and schools. The American medical student.

The student of the twentieth century. . . .

IV

THE MATRICULATED STUDENT

PAGE

35-52

Answers to the matriculate's queries. Note taking;

its value as an aid to memory, as a guide to read-

ing, as an assurance of accuracy in debate, and as

a serviceable adjunct in learning the art of writing

with precision and clearness. The attendance of

lectures on other than medical subjects. The

class society. What the student should read be-

sides medical works. Physical exercise, diet,

sleep, and social duties of students. Relations of

students to their teachers, and to each other .... 53-69

V

THE GRADUATE AS HOSPITAL-INTERNE

Relations and obligations of hospital-internes to each

other, to members of the Medical Board, and to

the lay officers. Reciprocity. Hospital discipline

The main forms of procedure to subserve the inter-

ests of patients and the efficiency of the medical

staff. Criterion of conduct of members of the

house-staff. Conduct of the medical officers in the

operating room...

70-85

VI

THE YOUNG PRACTISING PHYSICIAN

Requisites to professional success. The early years of

medical practice. The acquirement of a clientage.

The labors, anxieties, responsibilities, and vexa-

PAGE

tions of the physician in full practice. The growth

of a physician's library. His equipment in medi-

cal implements. His iatrium. His obligations to

the profession. When to begin writing for publi-

cation. Avoidance of controversy. The review

of medical books. The question of specialism.

The evil of self-sufficiency. The physician in

politics.
86-104

cine.

VII

SENSE CULTURE-VISION AND AUDITION

The early cultivation of the senses essential to the

proper conduct of the study and practice of medi-

General remarks on the five senses. The

visual sense. Seeing with the mind's eye. Quick-

ness of visual perception; its importance to the

physician; how to exercise it. The auditive sense.

Exercise of the mind's ear for correct interpreta-

tion of heart and respiratory sounds, etc.

as an aid to the cultivation of audition...

VIII

TACTION, OLFACTION, AND GUSTATION

The tactile sense. Its nature and diffusion.

Music

105-121

All the

other senses modifications of touch. Sensitive

apprehension, sensibility, and sensation; their

signification. The achievements of man through

cultivation of the sense of touch. Some of the

modes of culture of direct and of mediate taction.

Olfaction culture. The olfactive cells.
The spe-

cialisation of odors. The game of perfumes.

Taste culture. The seat of gustation. The five

savors. The concurrence of the tactile and olfac-

tive senses essential to perfect gustation... .... 122-141

IX

EVOLUTION OF MEDICAL MORALS

A summary of the history of the evolution of medical

morals. Beginning of the indoctrination of indi-

vidual obligations. Reciprocity a word of com-

mand. Justice, mercy, generosity, hope, faith and

charity the fundamental maxim of all systems of

good morals. A glance at the Hippocratic oath,

law, iatrium, aphorisms, and prognostics. Collo-

cation of moral precepts by Dr. Thomas Percival.

The American system of medical morals, its

origin...

X

THE PHYSICIAN AND HIS PATIENT

PAGE

142-158

Relations and obligations of the physician to his pa-

tients. Prompt obedience to the calls of the sick.

Attention, steadiness, and fidelity. Indulgence to

the caprices of the sick. The obligation of secrecy

extending beyond the period of professional serv-

ices. A physician obtaining information in his

professional capacity not bound to reveal it in any

court of justice. Of necessary and unnecessary

visitations to the sick. Gloomy prognostications

not to be made within hearing of patients. Con-

duct as regards attendance on incurable cases.

The division of responsibility in the management

of serious and difficult cases..

XI

THE PATIENT AND HIS PHYSICIAN

159-176

Reciprocal obligations of patients and their physicians

The patient's selection of a physician. Prompt

obedience to the directions of the physician either

toward the prevention or cure of disease. Impor-

tance of seeking advice at the earliest manifesta-

tion of any sickness. Irrelevant and wearisome

details in the statement of his case to be avoided

by the patient. Strict observance of the rules

prescribed during convalescence. No friendly

visits from physicians who are not in attendance.

The patient to be always in readiness to receive his

physician..
177-193

XII

THE PHYSICIAN, PROFESSION, AND PUBLIC

Obligations of physicians to the profession and to each

other. Maintenance of the dignity and honor of

the profession. Extension of the bounds of its use-

fulness. Contributions of lore to enrich the sci-

ence of medicine. Criterion of the true physician.

Temperance in all things. The physician's medi-

cal adviser. Vicarious offices. Duties in consul-

tations and in cases of interference. Differences

between physicians. Pecuniary acknowledgment

and compensation. Relations of the profession

and the public.

XIII

THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE

PAGE

.194-213

Correct, simple, concise, and clear medical language

as essential to the conduct of instruction as the

cultivation of the senses is to the study and prac-

tice of medicine. The young physician beginning

to write for publication. Word controversies.

Misused words. Wrongly coined words. Vicious

locutions. The drilling of students in the use of

words of precision. Frequent revisions of

essays.

XIV

YOUNG WRITERS AND SPEAKERS

214-234

How to master the art of intelligible medical writing.

The use and abuse of figures of speech. Word

coining. Obsolete words. Misusage of terms.

Alliteration. Florid writing out of place in medi-

cine. Quotations. Short and long sentences.

The proper disposition of members of sentences.

The good of frequent revisions. Punctuation.

Medical "bulls." Style. Titles of essays and

books. Individual titles. Preface. Introduc-

tion. Epigraph. A few cautionary remarks for

the benefit of young speakers.

235-252